Miwa in Kyoto

Sometimes, perverted man came to Information Desk, only to have a conversation with girls in uniforms. Maybe we seem attractive to those who loves cosplay (costume-playing ). Well, it is no problem, because we know how to get rid of them.
Here is my first experience of those perverts. One day, a man in 30s came close to me and said looking at my name tag,
“OO-san, please shake hands with me!”
“OO-さん、握手してください!”
He looked like a nerd, but was still so scary and I did not know what to do. Immediately, my experienced co-worker helped me out saying
“We don’t have shaking hands service here.”
“こちらでは握手のサービスは致しておりません.”
and the man said OK and ran away. I thought it was a very clever answer; we can deny it in very politely, even without offending him. We have several more good answers for those situations.
For example, a stockings fetish comes and say
“Is your stockings 80 denier? or 60 denier? I think you look better in 40 denier.”
(denier=a unit of measurement of linear density of textile fiber mass)
“We answer to ANY question relating to our store, sir. Do you have any questions?”
“お客様、店内の事でしたら、どんなことでもお答え致します。 何かご質問はございませんか？”
Usually those strangers run away when we say this back.

Customers are Gods in Japan, so we are not supposed to say anything bad to our customers. Sometimes it is frustrating that we can not show “annoyed face” , of course, we are supposed to be smiling all the time, even to annoying customers. However, once you learn how to answer to those questions, it is fun to try and see how those weirdo react.
Well, here is one exception. We still don’t know how to get rid of those who pretends being blind and ask us to take to a section they want to go holding onto staff’s arm. Some people really need this help, and we are always happy to take them and help them shop in the big store. However, some of them can obviously see things!! It is sooooo frustrating that we can not say
“Hey! You can see things, right? Liar!!!”

Posted on February 1st, 2008 by admin
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