It’s the little things that make a difference. Like when you order a coffee in a coffee shop, they ask for your name. My what? All I want is a coffee! No coffee shop I visited back home ever did that. I asked why and was told it helps prevent people from picking up the wrong coffee. I guess mistakes occur. Or when you’re buying lunch and the cashier smiles at you and says “paper or plastic”? My internal alarm starts ringing…paper or plastic what?! Oh plastic! She means my credit card, duh. So the $10 note I’m already holding out is raised a little higher so she can see it which only prompts a confused look. She means paper or plastic bag, stupid!
Then there’s the bus tickets. You pay $1.50 to go anywhere on the city buses, but don’t throw away your ticket because they’re valid for 2-3 hours, anywhere, any number of times. Awesome.
The TV and radio commercials for drugs (including non-prescription I think) can be 30-40 seconds long but at least half of the length is taken up with the voice-over man listing all the side effects and warnings about how and when not to use it. Customers could be asked to read the label like everywhere else…. The weirdest radio commercial so far has to be the one requesting volunteers for a medical study that’s investigating hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD). And it’s on several times a day! I’d never even heard of it before.
