They're not called convenient stores for nothing.

We had a lost-in-translation issue with our internet provider(s) this week. Our service got turned off, and we finally discovered that we are supposed to have been paying 2 different bills for our internet (one for the phone company, and one for the ISP). We've only been paying the ISP bills all these months, and had no clue we were missing the other one. Oops.

The solution? Dig through the random piles of bills (which are 100% in Japanese- there is a service on base that automatically pays most of our bills so we don't have to deal with these) we've received lately and, through my very limited knowledge of katakana, decipher which is the appropriate phone bill. I bring it to the Lawsons convenience store down the street, hand it to the clerk, fork over my 840 yen ($8.40 approx.), and BAM- our internet is back on. 

I love it when problems are easy to fix!