January 06, 2007

Adventure of English conversations in Hawaii
Story of rental car

W reserved a rental car in Japan. And we paid money to Japanese agency.
But when we went to a Hertz office, an officer said
“All cars were sold out. But you have two choices.
The other type car in this office or your reserved same type's car in the other office, which takes 5 minutes by cab by yourselves”

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When we talked with her, it was difficult to understand her suggestion in English.
Though we decided to go to the Hearts other office and we got on a cab. We sent a card, which was written a hotel’s name and address, was circled it by her, to a driver.
But we felt strange after 10 minutes, our cab was on highway.
Why?????
My husband asked the driver “How long will it take?
The driver answered ‘”It is 45 minutes.”
Really??? We were very confused about it.
We heard 5 minutes!!!
And we have carried Marriott hotel in Kapolei……
We paid $100 to the driver!!

After we got off the cab, we went to a Hertz desk in Marriott hotel which was very gorgeous in Kapolei.
We explained about the story to an officer who was very cool guy like reggae. But he didn’t know about our situation.
Why?????
We told him to call a Hertz desk in Hilton hotel. While he talked with her in Hilton hotel, he was laughing. Hahahahaha…..
Why?????
After calling, he explained about our situation. She should have circled the other Marriott hotel, which took 5 minutes from Hilton hotel. But she took mistake to circle.

Circled of hotel address card
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The poor Japanese came to the other Marriot hotel in Kapoiei!!!
Oh my god!!.
And we have to wait her who carried our car to Marriot hotel in Kapoiei.
I asked him “How long will she take by car in this hotel?”
He answered “It is only 25 monuts.”
You are kidding!! Hahahahah

Fortunately, this hotel was near a beautiful beach. Our children ware really into this beach. We didn’t feel tired to wait her. And she was honest and she adimitted she was falt. Part of money will be back to my husuband credit card. (Maybe)

Finally, I thought if I could understand English more, we didn’t experience this adventure.
Ater that, I thought I had to study English very hard. My English was really different of native English speaker. I have difficulty conversation to native English speaker.

You don't think this story is stupid . So I was a little depressed.
Anyway we enjoyed this adventure....


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7 Comments:

At 1:38 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is really no excuse for that girl to screw that up. It drives me crazy when I hear about people making those types of mistakes.

I hope the rest of your visit to Hawaii was much more pleasant.

 
At 2:07 AM , Blogger Lucy said...

Jay,
Thank you for reading my blogs. We enjoyed our trip. It was better than I thought. If you meet Japanese who can't speak English,
please take care them in the USA.

 
At 5:43 AM , Blogger SzélsőFa said...

I think the trip was worth this 'little' troble with the language. Native speakers DO speak differently from those who learn the language in schools.

 
At 7:46 AM , Blogger Cazzie!!! said...

Oh dear Lucy, this is not your fault, as the lady had then admitted. It is sad that it took time off from your holiday with all this problem.
Lovely photos Lucy, it looks delightful :)

 
At 12:04 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, I can understand your situaton,, many employee of those comany are not trained well.also they are part time worker.So this problem was not beacuse of your English .I think your english is enough. But those people can get only about $10 a hour, very low payment compared with japanease salary.Most of people have 2 jobs to support family in Hawaii. If you have the time look at this web side,,, this is very popular TV program for women in USA,,, I think this is very good TV show. Last week they talekd about America's taboo topic" class". It is very rare to talk about "class" on TV or magazine. they don't want to hear about it in USA
http://www2.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200604/tows_past_20060421.jhtml

 
At 11:06 PM , Blogger Lucy said...

Szélső Fa,
You are so nice English speaker. I should have listened English music.

Cazzie!!!
We didn't have selious trobles in the USA. That is luky. We could come back to Japan.

Keiko,
Thank you for comments again.
What Class Are You? Hahaha...
Our apartment room is usual smoller than the USA'S.

 
At 1:49 AM , Blogger -LGirl- said...

It looks amazing in Hawaii. You travel so much! You are very lucky! What a great way to start the new Year!

 

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