Retail assistant: That comes to ¥550.
Customer (placing ¥1,000 in a tray on the counter): Here you go.
Retail assistant: Do you have another ¥50?
Customer: I thought that you said it totals ¥550? ... Oh, wait ...
— Drug store, Toritsu-daigaku, Meguro-ku, Tokyo. Overheard by The Japan Times On Sunday
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