Never assume they don’t speak English

We drove past in Chiran before, wanting to go to a samurai place. It was a ‘point and whimsnfancies’ drive past back to Kagoshima but decided to do some checks whether it’s nice. We had to move out of the main road so happened to come to a carpark area, not knowing that it’s manned we were still reading about the place. I looked up and saw a man sitting inside and google translated if we can stop here for time being first as we’re checking some information. He was nice and allowed us. If one don’t ask nicely; one will not get what he/she wants. Generally Japanese are courteous and they will allow. When we decided not to go, I went up to him again and thanked him for his generosity. Then drove to Lawson, next minute we saw him there again. How did he reach faster than us?!?! Haha! Che-che and myself burst out laughing, so excited to see him and then not knowing that he understood English we also didn’t know what to say, we just smiled and waved “hello”. 

He then spoke to me in little english. What?!?! And to think I so lorsoh typed in google translate and showed him the texts.🤣 He mentioned that he worked in the US before as a chef. I didn’t ask him how long coz it would seem so rude to intrude into his private life, if he wanted to tell me he would. Then I got so excited and spoke so fast “how did you reach here faster than us? Is there a special tunnel?” He didn’t answer me, just smiled. Che-che and I started looking at google map 😂 I still don’t understand how he’s there so fast or maybe he’s the other twin? 

@ Saiki where our car broke down. Guy could speak English. His daughter couldn’t tho’. Because didn’t speak much to us coz our conversation was simply on the recharging the car battery, I didn’t know he could speak more than what he spoke to us. Haiyah! Then make me struggle to write to him a lengthy grandmother letter with my horrendous japanese lettering. 

I’m sure elsewhere in some other ulu parts of Japan are some people proficient in English as well. I’m sure too they’ll be happy to see English speaking tourists and start practicing their english whilst we tend to want to speak a little of halting Japanese to show that we love their culture and language. Muahaha! Such is life.