A Sample Of What You Can Experience On Vacation

I’m an American on vacation in Tokyo.

I’m at a stall in a mall that offers free samples. The lady attending the stall hands me a small sample on a toothpick, but I’m in the middle of eating something else.

I keep chewing, but before I can swallow, a young Japanese woman in a business suit appears out of the seething masses of shoppers and uses her mouth to bite my sample off of the toothpick.

She poses like a J-Pop star, says “yoink” then vanishes.

I turn to the woman running the stall, and in my most hangdog voice, I say:

Me: “She stole my sample.”

The lady running the stall laughed so hard she couldn’t stand up behind the counter and kept having to crouch to catch her breath, stand back up, look at me, and then started laughing again.