An anecdote

Something funny happened to me the other day. These things don't happen to me often so I have to relish it while I can. Yesterday when I got to work and took off my jacket, I noticed that I had forgotten to put my belt on before coming to work. I thought it looked a little funny to not be wearing a belt so I went down to the 3rd floor of Parco to the 100 yen store hoping to find a 100 yen belt (to go with my 100 yen ties-I LOVE the 100 yen store.) No such luck unfortunately. But as I was about to turn and go, this little old lady came up to me and said "Sleepers wa?" It took me a second to realize that she was talking to me, and when I finally did I was able to respond in perfect japanese, "Huh??" She said again, "Sleepers wa?" and at this point I realized that with my shirt and tie, she thought that I worked in the 100 yen store and she wanted to know where she could find "sleepers" whatever the heck those were. All I could say was "Wakarimasen" (I don't know) to which she probably wondered why the hell I was working there in the first place. God knows why she thought I worked there. I certainly don't look Japanese. Anyways just thinking about it makes me laugh out loud.