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akujunkanStory One: An acquaintance here in the prefecture, upon finally passing the driver's test, asked "Hey, how come Japanese driver's licenses don't have hair or eye color on them?"
Story Two: Two middle aged Japanese men sat across from me on the train from Osaka to Kyoto. They took in my appearance and then began to bitch. "She must be a JET. The quality of English teachers has been going down recently, hasn't it? Look at all her piercings. Look at what she's wearing! This would not have been permitted half a decade ago..." And so forth.
I let them continue in this vein for fifteen or twenty minutes, then withdrew my Japanese novel from my bag and started reading.
I wish I'd had a camera on me to capture the looks on their faces.
Story Three: A Japanese woman actually drove into someone else's car because she was so busy staring at my foreign friend.
Story Four: Enough Japanese people have asked me, "Do you have Coca Cola in America?" that I now tell them, "No, it's one of my favorite things about Japan" with a straight face.
That will be all.
Story Two: Two middle aged Japanese men sat across from me on the train from Osaka to Kyoto. They took in my appearance and then began to bitch. "She must be a JET. The quality of English teachers has been going down recently, hasn't it? Look at all her piercings. Look at what she's wearing! This would not have been permitted half a decade ago..." And so forth.
I let them continue in this vein for fifteen or twenty minutes, then withdrew my Japanese novel from my bag and started reading.
I wish I'd had a camera on me to capture the looks on their faces.
Story Three: A Japanese woman actually drove into someone else's car because she was so busy staring at my foreign friend.
Story Four: Enough Japanese people have asked me, "Do you have Coca Cola in America?" that I now tell them, "No, it's one of my favorite things about Japan" with a straight face.
That will be all.
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on 2005-10-21 12:58 pm (UTC)Also that is hilarious. I love doing that. Though I don't have any piercings, and I'm not particularly medatsu on an everyday basis, so it doesn't happen to me that way often. But I look forward to it when I go out dressed up. ;)
Man the more I imagine that the funnier it gets.
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on 2005-10-21 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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on 2005-10-21 09:05 pm (UTC)What is a JET? I might find the story even funnier if I knew what that was. :)
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on 2005-10-22 01:53 am (UTC)People always think that people who don't look like they speak a language automatically won't understand it. Same thing happens with spanish people. I hate that. But it's awesome when you get one over on them.
Um, Coke? Do they not realize where Coca Cola came from? ...
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on 2005-10-24 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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on 2005-10-25 02:16 am (UTC)I imagine if you ever had the (mis?)fortune to find yourself in my neck of the woods you'd medatsu plenty;) Why not give it a try sometime?
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