The owner followed her out of the store and restrained her over ¥180? Where do people even find the energy to turn these kinds of petty disputes into full-blown confrontations?
Conversion link puts about $1.20 US. Shop owner claims she’s done this repeatedly in the past so why wasn’t she trespassed in the first place?
Probably because the shop owner was being reasonable and hoping it would stop without having to get authorities involved.
When you come down hard on minor infractions, it creates a culture of forced politeness enforced by fear.
Is it really petty if she did this on purpose?
She damaged a product badly enough that it can no longer be sold. If it was an accident, sure I can understand letting this go. But did she really accidentally step on some bread?
Where are you seeing that she stepped on it? The allegation is that she pressed it with her thumb, and she doesn’t dispute that she pressed it on purpose—she was checking the firmness, which is a weird thing to do to a bun but I don’t think it’s worth chasing her down over. If you really can’t sell it with a dent in it, telling her not to come back seems like a proportionate response. But honestly if I were the owner, I’d probably just eat the dented bun and call it a wash.
She didn’t step on it, she apparently used her thumb and damaged one of the buns in the pack
I noticed everyone in Japan was surprisingly well-behaved. I wondered if this was the punishment for those who stepped out of line.
There’s a culture of not sticking out of the pack, and the feeling that everyone is judging you if you do. It’s sadly more about that than deep understanding of the value of civism, according to my native friends.
This just how I think of society and people in general why I have so much social anxiety
I think Western cultures often value differentiating yourself from the mass, it has its stupid downsides too of course.
Yeah you don’t fuck with a conbi in Japan. They take those things seriously
Imagine what they would have done if she had squeezed the Charmin.
https://youtu.be/38m-wnbHPLA (Great movie btw)
Not me topic!
She can squash my buns😇
