"John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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.