home again, home again
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
St. Catharines, 2010.11.02
I'm back in the city of my birth. And I had a good experience.
Heading out in the -2C weather at 08:00 I did some grocery shopping. I used up the dregs of the Canadian money I had in my pocket to buy the goods, and in fact was 60¢ short. I'd already chatted with the cashier a bit about having lived overseas for five years and not remembering how to do things now that I was back. And it turned out that her daughter in law has two brothers who married Japanese girls.
She waived the 60¢ that I was short. I told her I'd be back within a few days and would get the money back.
On the way back it occurred to me that it never would have happened in Japan. People there never budge on a single yen.