What is your best story when you were in a foreign country? (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago by guyrocket@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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It can be anything: Scary, funny, confusing or embarrassing. What happened that stands out most in your mind?

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[-] aelwero@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

Caught a cab at the gate of a us airbase in south Korea and asked the guy to take us to Starbucks.

Dude says "no problem", and drives us all the way across the city to an obscure little strip mall with a gigantic sign that said Starbox.

It had a coffee shop, so it worked out, but I still say "starbox" instead of Starbucks decades later :)

[-] athos77@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

Do you pay cabs by the mile in Japan? It might be something that he commonly "misunderstands".

[-] aelwero@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

He didn't seem like the scammy type at all :)

[-] radix@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Japan? But they said this happened in South Korea.

[-] athos77@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago

You are correct. I don't know why I said that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] trk@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

It was a very long cab ride

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

Especially if his cousin happens to own Starbox.

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