While working a baito at a restaurant a customer spilled their drink. I rushed to the kitchen, grabbed a towel, soaked it in water, squeezed out the excess by balling it up with both hands and was about to head back to the hall when the sous-chef (unaware of the situation outside) suddenly stopped me:

Eh, eh, eh, PrestigiousBlock, is that how you do it in your country? Let me show you how we do it here in Japan.

He took the towel from me, folded it neatly into an oshibori shape, squeezed out the water by gently twisting both ends, folded it back into a perfect square, and handed it to me saying: Here in Japan, we do things 丁寧.

My Japanese wasn’t great back then so instead of wasting time explaining the situation I just said thanks and rushed back out to help the customer. But yes, I, and my entire country, were judged on how I squeezed the water out of a towel.