guyrocket to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 6 months agoWhat is your best story when you were in a foreign country?message-square59fedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up183arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your best story when you were in a foreign country?guyrocket to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 6 months agomessage-square59fedilinkfile-text
It can be anything: Scary, funny, confusing or embarrassing. What happened that stands out most in your mind?
minus-square@aelwero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink22•6 months agoCaught a cab at the gate of a us airbase in south Korea and asked the guy to take us to Starbucks. Dude says “no problem”, and drives us all the way across the city to an obscure little strip mall with a gigantic sign that said Starbox. It had a coffee shop, so it worked out, but I still say “starbox” instead of Starbucks decades later :)
minus-squareathos77linkfedilink4•6 months agoDo you pay cabs by the mile in Japan? It might be something that he commonly “misunderstands”.
minus-square@aelwero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•6 months agoHe didn’t seem like the scammy type at all :)
minus-squareathos77linkfedilink3•6 months agoYou are correct. I don’t know why I said that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Caught a cab at the gate of a us airbase in south Korea and asked the guy to take us to Starbucks.
Dude says “no problem”, and drives us all the way across the city to an obscure little strip mall with a gigantic sign that said Starbox.
It had a coffee shop, so it worked out, but I still say “starbox” instead of Starbucks decades later :)
Do you pay cabs by the mile in Japan? It might be something that he commonly “misunderstands”.
He didn’t seem like the scammy type at all :)
Especially if his cousin happens to own Starbox.
Japan? But they said this happened in South Korea.
You are correct. I don’t know why I said that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was a very long cab ride