What do you do when you meet a friend in the supermarket? I suppose it depends where you are up to on your shopping list. If you have just started and all your concentration is required to weigh up the relative value of the cheap Red Leicester and the 2 for 1 Cathedral City cheese, you may not have a spare brain cell for anything more than a quick "Hello!". If you are further along, you may be happy to break off from the list, and have a good old chit chat about little Tommy's sore throat and aunt Agatha's antibiotics. Even so, it is not easy to get back into the list afterwards. But, I think the Japanese have got this one down to a fine art, as with so many of their little social nicities. You will simply hear a friendly voice say (in Japanese) " Shopping is it?" To which you can say,"Yes, shopping is it?" To which they reply,"Yes". And you both go on your merry way having fulfilled the social ettiquette without losing your concentration! I like this!
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