Michael Cash and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:

[...]

>I walked in, walked up to the machine, dropped my 500 yen in the slot,
>and was just about to poke the screen to tickle my ticket out of the
>machine when out of fucking nowhere Speediko Yamamoto-Gonzalez runs
>up, extends her arm beneath my own, pushes the "ENGLISH" option, and
>without so much as an "Andale, andale, ariba de gozaimasu!" was gone
>again.
>
>I don't mind when people automatically give me the English version of
>the brochure, even though they almost never contain all the
>information in the Japanese one. I don't mind when staff want to
>address me in English. But Jesu-fuggin-Christo can't they at least
>wait until a gaigin looks befuddled before offering some kinds of
>help?

I'm a stubborn bastard. The couple of times this sort of thing has happened to
me, I just rudely and blatantly go out of my way to change it right back to the
Japanese display again.

I understand the reasoning behind it, because this *is* a tourist spot you're
talking about, but yes, that bites.



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