True Stories Okey Dokey

My wife was the housing director of a small community college in northern California. The dorms quite often had foreign students coming there to brush up on their English and other subjects before going on to major universities.
Just before school started in September, several young women from Japan arrived and, using there limited English, inquired if they could be taken into the nearby town to purchase some additional clothes. My wife had one her student dorm assistants get a car and they started out to town.
Just as they approached the first traffic signal, she asked them where they would like to go. One of the student’s had a friend who had been to this area before and she said the name of a department store. The dorm assistant said “Okey Dokey!”. As soon at the car
rolled to a stop, the girls jumped out of the car and stood along side. She yelled at them to get back in as the signal was changing!
As they went on into the town, she found out that “Oke do ke” in Japanese meant “Stand up” and, since they couldn’t stand up in the car, as soon as it rolled to a stop, they had gotten out of the car.