"I can't find your account, Hattori-san." "... Can I suggest searching for a different name?" "Oh sorry. What is it?" "It's foreign. Ready?"
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"Wait what." "My name is a foreign name." "OK can I just have your last name then." "Well, sure, but that's foreign, too." "... How?"
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"That's a long story but the short version is I am actually a foreigner and actually have an account at your bank."
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(The 50-something lady working at the call center for the bank may literally have never met a foreigner ever, so spelling McKenzie is tough)
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(We eventually resolved this by searching based on my account number, which obviates having to play spell-it-out over the phone.)
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Sometimes I wish the banks would do what a local dry cleaners did, which was "Look I'm too old for this you're 服部健二 here, OK?"
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(Hattori Kenji which sounds a little like Patrick McKenzie if you say them both in Japanese.)
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