"Ed" <gwbush@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message news:<bche6v$e55$1@cobalt01.janis.or.jp>...
> "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:73fde4f0.0306020821.7ae46ac4@posting.google.com...
> 
> > I wonder if it counts as politeness when, for the most part, it's not
> > sincere. To me good service would be asking for a refill on my water
> > and getting it without much question; I will always remember doing
> > this in a small coffee shop in Umeda (one of those trendy places with
> > pretty cakes and half-filled glasses) and the waitress looked at me as
> > though I had asked her to calculate the distance to the sun in inches.
> > She eventually went to her manager, who tilted his head and eventually
> > said no.
> 
> "no" to a glass of water? The waitress probably thought you couldn't speak
> Japanese even though you were speaking Japanese so your order for a refill
> of water was mistranslated as a blowjob provided by the manager.
> 
> No wonder she looked at you funny.

She was probably jealous that I wasn't letting her have a piece of my
massive gaijin slab.

Actually, I think they probably used bottled water or some such and
didn't want to waste it. That's the only thing I can think of that
would lead them to deny a patron a refill on their water.

John W.