I got engaged to H!

It was worryingly easy. We went over to Saitama and I had to ask Mr S,
‘OJOUSAN O KUDASAI,’
which is literally
‘CAN I HAVE YOUR DAUGHTER PLEASE’
I could easily have said this by mistake in one of my Japanese rants. In fact, later, when we were eating our sashimi, I asked
‘WASABI O KUDASAI’ = ‘CAN I HAVE THE WASABI, PLEASE’
I got that too. Now I think about it, I could have asked for all sorts of stuff.

Probably best not to though. Just in case the 30% return gift law applies. I haven’t dared ask if this is so, because if it is then I reckon I owe him a pair of legs.

Also, spare a thought for the poor foreigner who got just one syllable wrong when he went to his future father-in-law and asked,
‘OJISAN O KUDASAI’ = ‘CAN I HAVE YOUR GRANDFATHER, PLEASE.’