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Tuesday, 17 June 2025

A close and real encounter

😁 https://www.facebook.com/555124414/posts/pfbid0auN1nfUmUurXu8wqS1tXUWMyMs8zfoYHkNmvZuZiNh5LeL3oCeAh47fwViAihDTjl/?

The link is from my original post on Facebook republished for blogger post.

 This is too precious not to share, it might be a bit long, but here it goes.😁😅😎

I finally was able to meet in the flesh, out in the wild, some entitled, dimwitted, one-celled creature from the land of the free and the home of the brave. How did I know where they were from? These nitwits got their names and address plastered boldly on their luggage, and a confederate flag sticker on one of the pieces of luggage, which was, by the way, very bright orange.

Anyway, I just arrived on this train platform waiting for my transfer train. As I had run from another platform yet missed the previous train, I was sweating profusely. The weather today was also warm, sweltering already.🥵 So I decided to get a cool refreshment. I saw an ice cream vending machine. Perfect! I chose my ice cream and hurriedly peeled the packaging and proceeded to take a bite of the cold treat. I enjoyed that first bite; the chocolate and wafer coating was still crunchy. I am still in the process of chewing; I did not even have my second bite when suddenly somebody tapped on my back, or shall I say, a claw was poking my back. I was still about to turn when I heard this high-pitched voice, I assume that was the natural voice of these cretins, irritating at that, and would even make a banshee's wail sound like music to your ear, asking me, "Do you speak and understand English?" When I was fully about-faced, there in front of me the organism of fantasy, I was face to face with this speck which I had only seen on social media or TV. I was surprised to see that she was a tad shorter than me, so, literally, I was looking down at her. My answer was affirmative to her query as I took my second bite of the cold afternoon delight - Oh, this was not a euphemism - it was truly a delight in the midst of this rising temperature. I heard a "grrrr"; this maggot can growl! She then pointed at me, angrily asked, "Do you mind?" Naturally, I was confused with that. "Mind what?" I shoot back. The shrill voice spoke again, "Do you mind not eating your ice cream in front of my kids!? We never feed them between meals, and now you are eating in front of them. YOU,"  pointing her ghoulish finger at me again, shaking, "YOU are ruining their appetite!" I looked around to find those children. There I saw behind her a slender, lanky man, as slender and lanky as a pole. More like a cross between Gollum and the Slender Man. Accompanying him were three doe-eyed creatures as lanky as the man, arms and legs like twigs; Baby Groot would look bigger beside them. I continued munching my chocolate wafer ice cream while I looked up to the lanky guy then looked down to this blonde shrub.

"Surely, madam, I will stop eating, but that will be right after I get my second ice cream! There's a chocolate mint ice cream in there waiting for me." She then huffed and puffed, turned her head to look up to SlenderGollum Man, probably asking for support. Another surprise for me because from this line drawing came a booming voice, not deep but a high pitch one that sounded like perpetual gargling. He said, "You're a rude Jap! You're not allowed to eat in public!" "So, get rid of this vending machine then," I replied. He stepped forward; it was here I saw the orange luggage he was carrying behind together with his gaunt tadpoles. "Just do me a favour, will you? Don't show any food in front of my kids!" "Cover this vending machine then if you can't get rid of it. It's in full view of your kits. (Yes, I said "kits" ^.^😎) I can get all the ice cream I want plus, you did not give me any rule book, or statute or even a memo for that matter that I can't be within the sight of your runts there when they're in between meals." He balled his hand and fingers into a fist and actually stomped his feet. I then finally heard the infamous line uttered by the hag, "You're so rude, you have no consideration, I will call the person in charge here, or the police, or the train station manager." "You do that, lady, it will surely make my day and I hope some people around are taking a video of this. But maybe next time, I've got to run; my train is here and my ice cream is melting." I ran towards the sunset, to the waiting train crowded with commuters, away from that weird and crazy, hopefully once-in-a-lifetime experience.🤣🍻😂😎🤘 That was Monday.

Thursday, 5 June 2025

Raw and unedited series on my way to work 1 (Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan)

One of the public high schools I teach is located in Kamakura. I usually get off at a train station one stop before my usual station. This is my view while walking towards the school.






 Mt.Fuji showed up after a few days of rain, sans the snowcap. Warm days ahead.