I'm from American but I live in Japan, and my friend came to visit last year. While we were sitting at a counter at a sushi restaurant this Japanese older couple came in and sat in the seats next to us. We were just looking at the menu and talking about what to order and I overhead the guy next to me talking to his wife saying "Oh, I wonder if they're OK...they probably can't read the menu...should we do something? Maybe we should help." It was actually kind of cute. I just turned to them and politely said that there was no need but I appreciated the thought.

Not me, but my uncle. On a late night bus out of Chicago, he was sitting there just reading and two girls at the next stop came on, chatting in German. They sat a few seats away from my uncle and started gossiping about inner-circle drama, what they were going to do for the night, regular girl chatter. Then one of the girls saw him and said something along the lines of, "What I would do to him if I had the chance.." to her girlfriend, and they both laughed and her friend quickly shushed her and said " What if he hears us!"

The first girl replies "They're all just stupid Americans, we're fine!" and without missing a beat, in perfect German, he replies, "Oh, no, please do tell: what would you do if you got the chance?"

They're getting married next spring.