[This entry is for mature audiences only.] TSUKUBA & FEMININE WASH. Ladies, this is a tip when traveling to Japan: never leave home without your feminine wash. Now guys, I know that you know what this is. Anyway, I made the mistake of forgetting to bring mine today so I had to go through the trouble of looking for one at a mall in the Tsukuba Center… and I thought that was an easy task. But guess what??? All the ladies at that section of the mall cannot speak nor understand English!!! So they make a phone call to seek help from someone who KNOWS a bit of English….and to my horror A GUY walks over! I couldn’t say “Nevermind” anymore—didn’t want these very helpful individuals to think I was just messing with them. So I said, very carefully, that I was looking for a ‘feminine wash’. I thought he understood as he was nodding his head…. But no! He hands me some paper and pen and asks me to write it down!!! --- Man! – but I had no choice.. so I wrote it down… now really embarrassed… but still, he can’t figure it out! So he brings in his Manager (a man in his 40’s maybe)… and they discuss a possible product with Japanese characters written all over it… But, they weren’t sure. So they talk some more, in Japanese, and then one of them goes, “Aha!” like he’s already got the answer! But noooo…… they bring in ANOTHER GUY…. Someone who knows more English than the first guy… there are now a total of 3 guys trying to figure out what I need. It was nuts! So very carefully, the 3rd guy translates to me what the box said… you know, that the thing is to be used for….you know… girls, you know the drill… and man, that really killed me!!!!! If I use the thermometer to measure embarrassment, this has got to be 100 deg Celcius--- yep, boiling point of water! And man, that whole thing lasted for 30 minutes!!! So I practically used up several thousand yen of work time there…. And for what? ….all for ‘feminine wash”. Damn!