After buying the rice, I saw another box of sweet potatoes next to the rice box, so I asked the lady boss, "Do you have any sprouted sweet potatoes?" mean. "The sweet potatoes we sell are all freshly dug! Don't worry!" "No, I especially want to buy the sprouted ones to 'look at'!" "Ah, yes, yes, yes, you didn't say it earlier. It's the kind that the school teacher asks the child to take." "Yes, yes," I echoed her, "the kind the teacher wants!" In fact, my child no lon...