Ethics at the Conbini
While I was in the States I bought a copy of the Book of Questions (see link below) which I remember fondly from my youth. It's basically a look at applied ethics, in various "What would you do if...?" kinds of situations. Some of them are very serious, some are funny and others are just gross-outs ("Would you eat a bowl of live crickets for $40,000?"... Well would you?). Anyway I thought it would be a good way to get some of the students talking in VOICE, so for my topic last weekend I searched through and found some of the most interesting/ funny questions and had the students discuss them in pairs. So far so good...One of the questions was "If after having dinner at a nice restaurant, the bill came and one of the items you had ordered was not on it, would you tell the waitress, or just enjoy your luck?" The students had various answers, including the pragmatic "It depends on if I thought I was going to go there again or not."
The kicker is, that right after that lesson I went to the conbini to get lunch like I always do, and whadda y'know they forget to charge me for Chika's chicken nuggets. I debated it in my mind, but seeing as it was such a weird coincidence that we'd all been talking about almost that exact situation only a few minutes before I did the honest thing aand told the conbini dude. It was only ¥210, but still.
Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaky!
Goog Afternooner!
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posted by Becki at 12:17 PM
4 Comments:
Wow, two people I know, whose names I will not mention, had the same thing happen at Gusto! But seeing as we, I mean, *they* aren't good at Japanese, they couldn't explain what was wrong to the waitress anyway :P
I have noticed mine does get really hot sometimes. Are they gonna give refunds?
I wanna have a look at that book.
Sure, you can borrow it if you want!
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