Went to the town centre with my girls at lunchtime. Popped into a game shop just to look, but ended up buying 4 DS games for my girls and now I'm broke. (2 of the games are educational stuff, which should help my children keep their maths ability during the holiday time.)
At the till, I handed over a store card, which an assistant (with a really really cool hairstyle) swiped in the machine. He stared at the screen for quite a long time and asked "Is this card yours?" After hearing my "Yeah, and?", he said "Your name is cool". Hearing that, I nearly dropped my purse. Akiko is one of the commonest/most boring/most ordinary/most uncool name in Japan where I was born and brought up, you know. I always wished that my parents had given me a more cute/pretty/poetic/rather unique name. So, it was a shock to hear the man, who I had never chatted with before, mentioning such a thing.
But since then, I've been quite happy and smiling. Me getting a compliment from men in this town is as rare as finding a bunch of £50 notes on a footpath, you know.
I'd like to know why the man think your name is cool. Is it just sound or any meaning he relates?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know why, too. You should go to the shop and ask him;)
ReplyDeleteWell, probably it was because he has never come across this name before, or because he thought that the name sounded/looked very extraordinary, I was once told that I was the only Japanese in the town. (= A rare spieces.) Or, like my children say, he was just flirting with me;)
He's probably an anime/manga-otaku, who thinks EVERYTHING Japanese is just over-the-hill way-too-cool...
ReplyDelete:))) Remebering how he looks, I wouldn't be surprised if he is actually an anime/manga okaku... Well, working in a game shop means being surrounded by many Japanese products, does't it? He has been working there for some years, so...
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