Strange...

Yesterday, while we were at home (Toby of course sleeping ;)) the doorbell rang. Now, when Toby's awake, it's no problem. He can answer it and find out what it's all about in Japanese. But Toby was not awake so I went over to look out the peephole and see who it was. I saw a guy with a clipboard and a large package, so I thought, 'must be a delivery, better answer it!' When I opened the door and he realized I wasn't Japanese, he kind of paused, probably thinking 'now what do i do?!'. But, being a good salesman, he immediately ploughed into his spiel. At this point I realized it wasn't a delivery, but I was curious about the package and he was obviously not a JW, so I let him go on. All I could make out was the word 'gyu' which means cow. I was very confused. Finally he said 'dorinku?' and I figured it out. 'miruku?' I asked? 'hai hai!' he said, very pleased that I understood and so encouraged that he went on again, the whole thing in japanese. At any rate, he started shoving this bag into my arms, it had milk bottles into it. Finally he says, 'sample!'. And that is how we got two free bottles of milk and some yogurt. He's coming back for the bottles on Friday (I managed to arrange that in Japanese, yay me!). I can't imagine a situation back home where you would be given free milk and yogurt, and then provided with a time in which to give the bottles back...