Connor's Biggest First World Problem With Chris

because I I live in Japan so I don't have to show my passport when I check in sometimes I want to see my cards my residence card for living here sometimes they don't technically they're not supposed to ask and they're not supposed to copy it it's just a whole some hotels ask for some hotels don't you can be pushy about it and say don't do it but then it like it gets even weirder when you're traveling with people who do need to show their passports and it was always like hey we wanted to offer a great service where we take the bags to the room they'd be like hey so before we check in can we see everyone's passports I'm like oh but passports are in the bags that you took took yeah yeah and they're all like oh oh well could you could you like come back later and scan them right I was like all right just never did yeah and I was like it's weird why do they it's like I have I have like a different problem every time I go into a hotel where it's like you know usually other people right they're like oh can we see your passports or if you live in Japan can we at least see us idiot card all your resume yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and it's so awkward every time like everyone's you know giving like this happened and so much on journey across Japan everyone's giving those I do cards right and then the cloaks just like you know looks over at me being like Zodi card [ __ ] and I and it's so awkward me having to be like yes I don't have one uh I'm Japanese I can see them pressing X like it's a doubt they're like you sure about that [ __ ] oh you knew horns what's up how does this interaction normally go oh no I mean for the most part it's usually I just say oh I'm Japanese in Japanese and they're like yeah oh okay I'm gonna [ __ ] try that yeah I'm gonna say it see if they stop asking me for my document yes but then every now and then when it's like especially in like if it's like a big city for example with lots of foreigners they they're kind of just like what do you mean by that like what do you mean you're Japanese research music and I'm like uh so I just don't I don't have a anxiety record I I live here I have yeah well I think I actually did like I I don't I'm not 100 sure on this but I'm pretty sure even if you live here that you're like they're not required to have your ID no but again I guess how do you like take my word for it like I guess I guess I have to do that I'm like they're like no you're not Japanese you clearly don't look yeah I am just trust you know I've got chatting with some people who uh have Zion cards and they really don't like I guess because it's just like the principle they don't want to show them yeah like I'm actually half a shirt [ __ ] you yeah they're like no I'm not sure anymore because also they always have photocopy it as well yeah which I don't get why do they photocopy my car yeah I'm like I don't I guess maybe it's for like uh like insurance reasons maybe I guess but it's like if you kind of [ __ ] up a room so hard then it's like oh we got your infrared here a little bit you know a little bit xenophobic to just only get like the foreign residence I guess it's kind of weird yeah so they can actually if it's a police officer they're gonna take you yeah yeah yeah you just say like all Japanese to it but like everyone else that woke me up but if it's a police officer yeah no no no police officer yeah they can actually you obviously yeah but like checking into a hotel I think there if if you want to you don't have to prove that you're but I guess yeah it's hard for them as well right well there you go life hack next time you're at a hotel just be like nihonjin this yeah coming up to the hotel by the way this is it's weird because like normally whenever I travel for work in Japan like we're filming stuff yeah yeah I don't know if it's I noticed that um this is such a a expat [ __ ] problem if you're like booking.com is still set to the foreign country they'll they'll 100 ask you for idea when you get there but yeah because I change because Chris hasn't done it Chris is still set to like the UK yeah and I told him like a million times to change that [ __ ] because every time we go to a place they immediately ask for our passports yeah yeah it's super annoying having to like do the whole thing uh I sent mine to Japan now so that when I book it sometimes they ask sometimes they don't but actually just trip no one ever asked me for it oh that's good and no one ever tried to photocopy it and I was like oh this is a nice change of Base that's what they should do it every holiday yeah I'm like chill nice sick awesome coming up with the times I don't know I just it's just it just saves time I just don't wanna dude it's so annoying when you when we were cycling every single day on the cycle yeah this 30 minute [ __ ] check-in where they want to scan all my documents make sure I'm like legal and it's like oh my god dude like let me just check I don't need a shower dude I smell like [ __ ] let me in the room it's like I don't know I it's it's weird I guess especially if like I I don't actually I wonder if it's something to do with paying afterwards and paying um before because all the hotels I paid before uh and when we did uh when we traveled uh with Chris or whatever we always pay after I just also one of the hotels Chris did forget to pay oh [ __ ] it was an apple Hotel hey Chris forgot to pay because she straight up forgot to pay I just left we were late to the stream because Chris had to drive back and go and pay because they called him up and they were like oh assume I was in uh money where the [ __ ] so Chris would drive back and go and pay because he's just straight up laughed how many hotels has that man been in how did you forget this is why when I book it I just pay right there I'm like this takes away a giant stress yeah yeah uh it's just so much easier because you're gonna pay with the same [ __ ] card anyway you don't wanna pay up front yeah you don't want to [ __ ] around like as you're leaving you're probably like rushing to go somewhere or you know whatever just like booking.com more often not just it gives you like a two percent discount anyway yeah yeah anyway yeah um so you know it's so annoying anyway so this is such a person living here problem and even then a more Niche problem of person living here who travels around here a lot probably yeah gig of first world problems have you ever like you know when uh whenever you're like living in Australia or something or somewhere outside of Japan have you ever like had an opportunity to help a Japanese tourist abroad that's like yeah a few times um but I don't know it's it's weird like unlike in Japan where there are a lot of people who come to Japan not knowing the language whatsoever yeah and are like clearly struggling yeah a lot of Japanese people who come to Australia they're deep they're pretty decent at English like enough where they can kind of get around because I feel like for English mentality yeah I should think that you'll be accommodated right and I think like especially with like Japanese people because for the most part a lot of Japanese people are like the the common consensus is like they're very afraid to like travel overseas because it's like oh you know Japanese doesn't really work yeah anywhere else outside of Japan right so it's like I feel the people who are actually willing to travel outside of Japan to different countries are the ones that are already probably interested in like learning English or like learning a different language anyway yeah so like I've never had that thing of like I've seen a clearly Japanese tourist yeah in Australia struggling because it's like well you probably know the bare minimum English to get around anyway yeah so it's like yeah you'll be all right just got out I had a moment I was like so proud of it was just like it made living here in Japan for like four years worth it just for this like one moment just because uh it was actually when I went to Thailand at last time yeah and uh uh we were at the airport we're just Garden off the plane uh and uh our Sydney was in the toilet so I was waiting for her and I could see there there's there was this like older Japanese couple talking to one of the Thai staff members uh and I I you know I just kind of like zoned in on like their conversation and I think they were like trying to find kind of like the right gate to transfer over to because they were flying to like one of the islands or something now like you said they could speak like a little bit of English yeah but it wasn't great yeah but also the person that was uh kind of helping them obviously Tai yeah her English wasn't great either yeah I saw this so much it was like a different tourist trying to speak English to a Japanese person who also had batting yeah yeah yeah it was it was like a car crash every time so it was just like confusion on both sides there was a Thai person speaking broken English to a broken English older Japanese couple who couldn't also speak English trying to best interpret that so I was just like you know what I think this is my moment I I think I think this is my moment and so I come over and uh I you know I I ask to the person I tell the person inside is everything okay I can speak like a little bit of Japanese and she explains to me oh you know I'm trying to explain to them the directions of the gate and the plane that I can get to and I was like thank God I can actually my language skills are good enough to like translate this and then and then so I translate them to uh I say what she says in Japanese and they go it's like why do you want to yeah yeah exactly exactly and I was and then they were like oh why do you speak Japanese and I was like oh I'm I just literally flew flew from Japan I live in Japan right now uh I had a nice pleasant conversation and I was like yeah you go here you go there I hope you have a nice Journey here and I hope you have a nice day in Thailand and it was just like that was that was I don't know sometimes it's the little things of life and I just I was like beaming I was beaming all day just because that one interaction I was like I was like yes it's so weird because like in Australia I've had so many instances where it's like it's that situation but flipped yeah so it's like I I could be like walking around in you know somewhere in Sydney like somewhere where I'm like clearly know where I'm going maybe I'm a little bit lost you know maybe it's because it's like a suburb I've never been to yeah and I've had people who you know mistake me for a different nationality many times right uh I remember one time I was in I forgot where I even was but it was a place I'd never been to before and I was like looking for a particular I think like restaurant or something to meet up with a friend and I'm like where the [ __ ] is this place and I'm like looking on my phone I don't know where it is yeah and this like dude just he's just like excuse me and he just comes up to me it's just like I think he was like Indian or you know maybe like you know Pakistani something like that yeah and he just starts speaking to me in Hindi I know how am I looking I love your movies yeah he just starts speaking to me in Hindi and I'm like and and I tried to tell him I was like uh I'm sorry man I don't know I don't know what you're talking about and he just and he's like oh oh you speak English yeah and I'm like yeah I speak English I don't speak whatever the [ __ ] you just spoke to me yeah and he was like trying it's like oh it looked like yeah it's like I thought you were like a like an Indian tourist or something like trying to figure out where you wanted to go and I'm like dude that's my fear of like helping who I think is a Japanese person yeah they just speak a completely different language yeah oh [ __ ] okay I've had that so many times where I thought they were Japanese and they were like Korean yeah yeah and I'm just like oh sorry I've I've had that so many songs where I've uh gone to a place thought they were Thai and uh it turns out they were Vietnamese I literally when we were when we were on our America Tour I think we were in like New Jersey or something it was like our day off and now you guys have got to get dinner and I'm like I I [ __ ] miss Thai food man I just want some Thai food sure go to the local Thai restaurant Southeast Asian guy serves me and I'm like oh my God I'm back home and I start speaking to him in Thai and he's just like uh sorry I I don't speak till I I'm uh I'm Malaysian I'm like God God damn it man I thought I was home right now I thought I was uh everyone gets confused food is gonna be whack or good it was still good though God just immediately walks out send it back yeah I thought I was home baby but I thought it felt great bro it felt like my third eye was had to open because this was the first situation I'd ever been in my life where I had not used my first language I I had used my I guess my second language and now my third language and I'm just like yo is this the power of a trilingual validation yeah yeah yeah yeah have I have I unlocked the trilingual power now oh my God this feels incredible yeah but uh yeah hopefully hopefully that that kind of like little moments like that I'm just like oh I should I should study more Japanese now yeah that's like reignited my passion for yeah like hearing stories like that makes me want to learn a third language but I just don't know what yeah to counteract okay dude it's got to be handy bro like what funny you say that actually uh bro imagine how big your fan base would get if you knew him you would be huge you would quadruple your viewership bro it would be game changing extra one billion fans

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Length: 12min 38sec (758 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 24 2023