Ojisan
02-15-2007, 02:11 AM
(Disclaimer: I had a bowl.)
I was eating at this low class yet tasteh Mexican food restaurant earlier with my girlfriend for Valentine's Day. As we were about to leave, this little Japanese dude comes up telling us he's a missionary from Japan. Not surprising considering this was Rancho at 8pm.
At first, I was like, "oh shit, please don't start preaching," but after speaking some broken English quietly to me, I was relieved to find out he was just trying to sell stuff. He pulls out this zipper case full of fairly attractive jewelry (perhaps from Japan?), and shows it off. I was entirely ready to whip out five or ten bucks and get a pretty little dolphin necklace for a Valentine's gift, but when asked the price, he says, "twenty-five."
Holy shit, that's a little steep. I reluctantly declined, when this idiotic idea popped in my head. "I've never spoken with a Jap dude before, I wonder if I can bust a little Japanese!" Heh, that lame-ass notion that having watched a few too many subtitled cartoons made me capable of light conversation. I definately avoided the "konichiwa" cause that's trite as hell. I think I threw in an arigatou and felt pretty lame about it.
But by far my shining achievement was when he asked for a small contribution. I reached in my pocket to count my one's, spread them out and said, "san". Heh, he kind of grinned because he caught that I said "three". Then I was thinking how ****ing lame that probably was but didn't care.
My main point was that $25 was too much for his little jewelry.
I was eating at this low class yet tasteh Mexican food restaurant earlier with my girlfriend for Valentine's Day. As we were about to leave, this little Japanese dude comes up telling us he's a missionary from Japan. Not surprising considering this was Rancho at 8pm.
At first, I was like, "oh shit, please don't start preaching," but after speaking some broken English quietly to me, I was relieved to find out he was just trying to sell stuff. He pulls out this zipper case full of fairly attractive jewelry (perhaps from Japan?), and shows it off. I was entirely ready to whip out five or ten bucks and get a pretty little dolphin necklace for a Valentine's gift, but when asked the price, he says, "twenty-five."
Holy shit, that's a little steep. I reluctantly declined, when this idiotic idea popped in my head. "I've never spoken with a Jap dude before, I wonder if I can bust a little Japanese!" Heh, that lame-ass notion that having watched a few too many subtitled cartoons made me capable of light conversation. I definately avoided the "konichiwa" cause that's trite as hell. I think I threw in an arigatou and felt pretty lame about it.
But by far my shining achievement was when he asked for a small contribution. I reached in my pocket to count my one's, spread them out and said, "san". Heh, he kind of grinned because he caught that I said "three". Then I was thinking how ****ing lame that probably was but didn't care.
My main point was that $25 was too much for his little jewelry.