Strange things are happening in convenience stores in Nerima.
One of my students recently told me that she keeps a “convenience store notebook”. For the last six years, since 2018, she has been taking a memo of her experiences in visiting various convenience stores around Nerima. She marks the attitude of the staff towards her with a circle for good and a cross for unacceptable. She also marks their toilet facilities with an A, B, or C.
I told her that she could perhaps sell this information to the different companies. I am sure that Lawson and Family Mart would be interested to know which staff members failed to live up to standard.
A different student of mine told me that she recently went on a “Lawson crawl”. This was after I had taught her the expression “pub crawl”. In a pub crawl, someone visits many different pubs one after the other in the same night of drinking. My student told me that she had visited as many branches of Lawson as she could find in the same evening.
Apparently, my student’s friend had recommended a special offer available in some limited branches of Lawson. They were selling frozen tarts, and also a lemon flavored alcoholic drink with a slice of real lemon.
When my student eventually found a store selling these products she shouted out loud, “Yatta!” [“I’ve done it!]
I think she had been sampling the lemon flavored alcohol even without the real lemon several times before she found exactly what she wanted.
What is it about convenience stores that seems to encourage strange behaviour?
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