About three years ago, when I was working part-time in Japan as a cashier in a convenience store during my university years, I made a casual comment to my then-store manager, a harmless-looking man in his 40s, that the new models of coffee machines 7-Eleven had ordered were much larger.
He raised his eyebrows, looked straight into my eyes and said: "So you like it big, huh?"
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