Can U Help Me?

A puzzled-looking Caucasian guy approached me
with a question at the parking fare machine of
the outlet mall in 三重県.

He wanted to get his parking fee paid just like
I did at the machine.

"Sure, you got your ticket?" I asked,
turning my face to him.

He looked surprised, passing me his parking ticket,
"Oh, you speak English? Good."

I smiled at him as I inserted the ticket into the machine.

This time was me who got surprised because the
machine was rejecting his ticket.

"Why is rejecting?" I wondered and tried to insert
into a different machine.

I shrugged my shoulders and asked him, "Did you get
validation at a shop?"

"Nope," said he.

"Oh, that is why," I said, "You need to get your ticket
validated at a store with a receipt."

As I gave him his ticket back and asked,
"Do you still have a receipt?"

"Yes! Thanks man!" he answered with a smile.

"No problem," I replied.

That was what happed when leaving the mall.

The thing was I forgot to tell him that to get validation
it was required a purchase of 3K yen or more.