necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote:

> Listen, nobody bristles more than me at the typical Japanese in Japan who
> approaches the typical gaijin, makes a gigantic assumption and promptly
> launches into English.

C'mon.... It isn't always English. But there is that gigantic
assumption.

There was a woman who moved over to sit down next to me on the train
from Kamiyacho station (nearest one to the then-Soviet Embassy) and
started speaking Russian to me, and then there was the time at the
Family Planning Clinic where I was made to wait an hour until they could
bring over a Very Important Doctor who spoke Foreign, without thinking
to check whether the Foreign he spoke was the same as the one I do. 

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