Wait, what countries don't use these? At least in Canada every restaurant that isn't fast-food is going to give you the receipt and change on a tray or in a leather booklet.
Japanese Change Trays
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#112Wait, what countries don't use these? At least in Canada every restaurant that isn't fast-food is going to give you the receipt and change on a tray or in a leather booklet.
How about at the counter of a 7-11?
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#113Wait, what countries don't use these? At least in Canada every restaurant that isn't fast-food is going to give you the receipt and change on a tray or in a leather booklet.
This was my thought too, but I am also from Canada (west coast) so it is plausible that it is just us and the Japanese? Interesting.
Edit: and Germany, according to the poster below...
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was called hakujin once, by a very angry man--"iranai, hakujin ga kirai" was the exact greeting. Granted, I was a Mormon missionary knocking on his door to talk spirituality, but out of the thousands of doors I knocked, that one still stands out as pretty spicy. In comparison, gaijin never seemed that bad.
What makes people like you think it's a good idea to go and bother people in their home about your religious beliefs? Many people must find it frightening or just very annoying. Why subject people to that? It doesn't seem nice, let alone Christian.
Maybe, but "go away, I hate white people" seems a slight overreaction.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was called hakujin once, by a very angry man--"iranai, hakujin ga kirai" was the exact greeting. Granted, I was a Mormon missionary knocking on his door to talk spirituality, but out of the thousands of doors I knocked, that one still stands out as pretty spicy. In comparison, gaijin never seemed that bad.
What makes people like you think it's a good idea to go and bother people in their home about your religious beliefs? Many people must find it frightening or just very annoying. Why subject people to that? It doesn't seem nice, let alone Christian.
How would he know if he's "bothering" them without asking? Not everyone in the world is reflexively atheist.
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#116Wait, what countries don't use these? At least in Canada every restaurant that isn't fast-food is going to give you the receipt and change on a tray or in a leather booklet.
You're right trays are quite common a lot of countries in restaurants or other places where the change is being carried to you.
But at least in my experience they are not very common for giving change in shops.
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#117Question: Is money considered "dirty" in Japan? In North America, women keep bills and coins in their purses next to used tissues, and studies have shown that men's wallets have an even higher concentration of bacteria than women's purses. We sit on and, on hot days, sweat on our money all day. Let's face it, the stuff is pretty disgusting. However, if somebody hands you a twenty, your first reaction is usually not,…
I'm not sure. One thing I can say from experience though is that bills in Japan are newer and cleaner than they are in the US. My impression is that it would be unthinkable in Japan to write on a bill with a pen or to crumple it up. Also, I'd guess bills that start to get worn are taken out of circulation much earlier. Compare that to the US where I've seen a supermarket teller draw a line with a pen across a bill af…
To answer your question, it was likely a counterfeit detecting pen[0] that only leaves a visible mark on counterfeit notes. I generally only see them used on $100 bills; rarely on anything smaller.
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#118I remember these being common in Canada at least as late as the mid-1980s. Usually branded with a credit card logo.
I think I know what youre speaking of, my recollection growing up in the 90s was that the bill at a restaurant would always arrive on a tray, and then any change, mints, customer receipt, change would be returned on the same tray after payment was made.
Now with debit cards (interac, not mastercard) being the norm its standard to get the bill and then have them bring over a wireless debit machine (and has been that way for at least 10+ years)
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#119We have these in Canada, I'm pretty sure I've used these in Pennsylvania and Michigan as well, not sure where these aren't used actually.
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#120Question: Is money considered "dirty" in Japan? In North America, women keep bills and coins in their purses next to used tissues, and studies have shown that men's wallets have an even higher concentration of bacteria than women's purses. We sit on and, on hot days, sweat on our money all day. Let's face it, the stuff is pretty disgusting. However, if somebody hands you a twenty, your first reaction is usually not,…
I'm not sure. One thing I can say from experience though is that bills in Japan are newer and cleaner than they are in the US. My impression is that it would be unthinkable in Japan to write on a bill with a pen or to crumple it up. Also, I'd guess bills that start to get worn are taken out of circulation much earlier. Compare that to the US where I've seen a supermarket teller draw a line with a pen across a bill af…
In canada you can have five coins in your pocket and still have $10 for lunch, but what strikes me weird is visiting americans' homes and seeing crumpled $1 bills stuck in the couch!
Where I live the smallest bill is $5 and is worth picking up, but to the Americans I know it almost seems like all change and $1 bills are worthless. Very foreign!