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Originally Posted by msb0b

I have paid for a 147 jpy drink at a FamilyMart convenience store with 7 1-yen coins and a 1man note. The cashier did not even flinch and happily counted out gosen, rokusen, nanasen, hachisen, kyuusen...

That gets you into the makunouchi....
You reach sekiwake when you automatically hand over 1,332yen for an 827yen bag of groceries. (However, you go back down to maku$hita if you take five minutes at the till doing the sums with people in line behind you).

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Originally Posted by Calcifer

Fortunately, not too many people get snarky about accepting 1man notes other than taxi drivers (which I find very annoying).

Taxi drivers love those big notes eh.... I recently had a guy who couldn't give change for a 10,000 yen note - right at the start of his shift (you'd think he would start the day better prepared - no?). I even offered to run into a store and get him some smaller notes, but he decided that it was better to give me the 660yen ride for free and move on to a better customer. (I did give him the handful of copper-coloured coins that I had on me).

Or if you do not have a triple beam handy, they work as great counter balances for weights in 1-gram increments. ;)

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Originally Posted by Pickles

I'd collect a bunch of them, melt them, and make myself a 1-yen bong pipe.

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Originally Posted by jib71

Taxi drivers love those big notes eh.... I recently had a guy who couldn't give change for a 10,000 yen note - right at the start of his shift (you'd think he would start the day better prepared - no?). (...) but he decided that it was better to give me the 660yen ride for free and move on to a better customer.

Happened to me too in Kobe... On another occasion I also tried to pay a 5'000 yen fare with a 10'000 note (not so unreasonable I would have thought!) one morning and the guy was carrying on a storm. For him I had no sympathy and he ended up getting another taxi driver to help. :rolleyes: