mokudekiru

Yesterday I went to the bathroom before one of my classes. There was a woman standing in front of the sink and I paid little attention to her. When I was washing my hands, she had gone into a stall, and a second woman had come in. They started talking and I immediately zoned out, because they were not speaking english.

Except about three seconds into their exchange, at which point it was already over, I realized that I was actually following it. It went something like:

Woman 1 inside bathroom stall as Woman 2 enters the bathroom.
Woman 2: Aren’t you done yet? Is it #2!?
Woman 1: No! I just went into the stall!!

At which point I realized, “oh, that was Japanese.”

This was really great, of course because they didn’t know I knew what they were saying, but also because this ALMOST NEVER HAPPENS with Japanese.