So I have some Gaijin Moments to share. Both of them happened today, actually.
As we were waiting for the bus, randomly, a car pulls up to the bus stop and a fat old guy gets out. The first thing he asks me is if I know Japanese, so I said I knew a little. The guy wanted to know where the Coco Store (the campus konbini) was. Now, even at OSU, I've had severe problems giving people directions IN ENGLISH. This is mostly because I only know how to walk places on campus, not how to get there in a car. The rear side of the store was behind where we were, so I told him that. Keep in mind this entire conversation is in my really nervous broken retarded Japanese. The guy is then like "Well, can I get there in a car?" which made me even more nervous because I really didn't know if he could. I kinda just directed him to a parking lot, so hopefully he was able to get to the place.
Later, at the station, I was going to the mall with some friends. It's only one stop away, so the ticket only cost 160円, but for some reason the top button on the computer wasn't working, so I hit the button on the bottom, which was the same price. Unfortunately, after we got the ticket and tried to go through the station once we arrived, the gate kept rejecting me. The guy at the station told me to be careful like a million times and said a bunch of other stuff that I really wasn't following at all. I'm just assuming I bought the wrong ticket. LOL
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