Young child: There's only two people in the kitchen but they have made all this food for the buffet. They must have worked really hard to prepare all that.
Dad: Don't worry about it. It's their job.
Young child: Ah ... I guess they do it every day, so they must be used to it.
— Oyamadai, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo. Overheard by The Japan Times On Sunday
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