Friday, 6 February 2009

Life advice...Japanese stlye

So in my job I do a lot of role playing. No weird fetish stuff, just acting out a real life scenario so people can practice various situations they might encounter. Anyway, today we were doing a lesson on giving recommendations / advice. I posed a few hypothetical questions to my client and got some pretty entertaining response.
  • I'm always fighting with my girlfriend, what should I do? Response - "You should break out with her". After establishing that "break out" probably wasn't the right phrase to use in this situation my client decided to put it more simply "You should get rid of her". So I told him that wouldn't work because I wouldn't have a girlfriend. His reply "Why don't you go to a club, I'm sure you'll find another one".
  • Next was - I'm short on money, what can I do? Response - "You could go to a Pachinko parlour." Pachinko parlours are basically rooms packed with slot machines.
Needless to say, my client also learnt the definition of "questionable advice" today. A little over three months down the line and this place still cracks me up.

1 comment:

Luke Henkeman said...

Ah, what a world, where cash can be picked up at your nearest slot machine and women are completely interchangeable (for the cost of a trip to the club). Hehe