On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:31:35 +0900, "Dave  ...
>
>"mr.sumo snr." <mr_sumo@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The door bell just went and a moderately cute young Japanese woman in her
>> mid-twenties introduces herself as an operator of an English school for
>> toddlers and kindergarten kids near the local Apita.
>>
>> I sense a sales pitch coming - and prepare myself for not being able to
>play
>> the "chotto wakaranai" card.  Then she says "nihongo daijoubu desu ka?
>eigo
>> ha muzukashii...".
>
>Nice one! I only ever seem to get the newspaper salesmen (who are usually
>easily frightened by a foreign face) and the Jehovah's Witnesses (who
>aren't).
>

My newspaper guy /is/ a foreign face. I'm guessing he is Brazillian.

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