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Crunch time

Posted: September 26th, 2006 | Author: amake | Filed under: Diatribes, Japan | 4 Comments »

Things got interesting last night. And by interesting, I mean potentially injurious.

I was in the not-so-nearby town of Ōzu visiting a friend. I made a left turn onto a horribly narrow little road, and accidentally scraped my car against an until-then invisible guardrail. The left side of my Daihatsu MOVE is now a bit scratched up and slightly more concave than before. It still drives fine, though.

Visions of multi-hundred dollar repair bills floated before my eyes as I reported the incident to the yakubizzle. They of course wanted to see the car to assess the damage themselves. I brought it in after my elementary school visit.

The section chief took one look at it and said, “It’s an old car, and the damage is pretty light. What do you think?” I told him that if it were my car, I wouldn’t bother fixing it. We then explained the situation to the insurance specialist: “I hit a guardrail.” “Yeah, that’ll happen.”

The conclusion: The car is due for shaken in Feburary; we’ll have it repaired then. In other words, I’m off the hook.

Later I was discussing with a contemporary of mine the fact that Japanese people don’t get wet when it rains.

M
The streets [in Tokyo] are super narrow too. It was raining today and I had to keep raising my umbrella just to let the cars pass.
Me
yeah, rain in tokyo sucks ass. the only way you won’t get wet is if you’re already wet. then you at least can’t get wetter.
M
Seriously!! And the Japanese people didn’t look wet at all. what the heck is up with that?? Are Japanese people naturally scotch guarded or something?
Me
they are somehow impervious to everything about their climate.
M
[A friend] and I were observing what was going on. All the gaijin were DRENCHED and these little urban princesses were walking around in their open-toe 3 inch heels and looking sassy. bitches.
Me
sometimes i think they’re not even corporeal, but are actually lost souls doomed to roam the island for all eternity.
M
Nothing is more fun than dissing the Japanese. I’m sorry, but it’s just hours of fun filled entertainment
Me
they bring it on themselves
M
I think so yes

4 Comments on “Crunch time”

  1. 1 Krissa said at 15:54 on October 2nd, 2006:

    Post, or I’ll never survive tomorrow’s schoolday!

  2. 2 Brian said at 19:02 on October 2nd, 2006:

    Visit all the Vietnamese Fun at http://www.briancotter.us

    It will eventually have a lot more content, I swear!

  3. 3 amake said at 14:56 on October 4th, 2006:

    Krissa > Your wish is my command.

    Brian > Thanks for the link. I’ll definitely keep up on it, provided 1) you actually update it, and 2) you get RSS going so I can easily see when you’ve updated it.

  4. 4 Brian said at 2:09 on October 5th, 2006:

    I call you lazy.

    I’m working on it.

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