Friday, January 13, 2006

Talking to Strangers

I was sitting next to a very drunk old guy on the train on the way home from work yesterday. I knew he was drunk as fuck cuz I caught a whiff of him soon as I got on. I sat down next to him on purpose. This has become a little pastime of mine. I always like to sit next to the weird fucker on the train that all the other people are purposely avoiding. Why? Cuz fuck those people! Those are the same bastards that won't sit next to me cuz I'm a foreigner. So anyway, I'm just chilling there listening to Tupac and waiting for the inevitable. See a drunk old guy is never ever gonna pass up the opportunity to make contact with a foreigner. So he taps me on the shoulder and offers me a little candy. Now I know better to take it so I declined it by telling him I already had some gum in my mouth. This pacified him until the train got to his stop. Then he stands up and puts his hand up in the "gimme a high five" position. So I give him a high five and he's on his way. Every fucker on the train is absolutely amazed by what just transpired. It pretty much broke every single aspect of Japanese social etiquette (except ones dealing with chopsticks).
I sorta had an epiphany at that moment. It went something like this. Fuck all those people out there who think they are too good to give a drunk geezer a high five on the train. You'd figure the epiphany would be a little more subtle but what're gonna do.

Song of the Day: If I Die Tonight- Tupac





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