Tough Crowd
I walked into a barber shop today to get a haircut (which cost friggin' 3300 yen, or about $40 CDN [my haircuts usually cost around $15], by the way) and this little girl takes one look at me, and I can see the horror in her eyes as her faces changes from a happy disposition to one of complete panic. She starts bawling (and I don't mean crying, I mean BAWLING) after about 2 seconds of looking at me. The barber had to send her off to another room (I think it's a barber-shop-room-in-a-house-type-set-up). I guess she's never seen a foreigner before, and she thought I was going to eat her or something (either that, or my looks have deteriorated significantly). Later, her mom carried her back into the barber shop, I guess to show that I wasn't that scary, but as soon as the kid took another look at me, she buried her face in her mom's shoulder and started crying again. I tried to smile, and tell her (in Japanese) that I wasn't really scary, but she would have none of it.
What really killed me is when her older brother came in, he took one look at me, and did a half-jump backwards, as if he expected me to punch him in the face or something. This is in a house that is both a stone's throw away from my apartment, and that I litterally pass next to every time I leave my apartment. I'm sure I've seen them outside of their house before; I guess they must have figured that gaikokujin (non-japanese) just don't need haircuts. Crazy.
posted by lp @ 6:05 a.m.
2 Comments
2 Comments:
Salut mon grand!
Tu es tellement beau!!Ils n'ont jamais vu une beautée pareille c'est pour cela. Tu devrais leur dire que comme tu es une 'attraction' ...il devrait te charger moitié prix! 40$ c'est effrayant comme prix imagine comment ca peut couter a une femme!!
Grosses bises, porte toi bien! Nous sommes descendu 'a Blainville en fin de semaine et avons peintur. le sous-sol!!As-tu reçu la boite??
Tourlou!!
Maybe if you stopped eating some of the children the rest of the children wouldnt be afraid of you ... How long had it been since you cut your hair ... if they saw you before then maybe that is why they were scared ... and if they were scared after you should have told the barber that he made you look like a freak and that is why his children were scared of you at which point he should have discounted your $40 haircut to at least half price for making you look like a scary monster ... and my only thought to avoiding brackets is sort of my style in which you just ignore anything that should be gramatically correct (unless its funny) and just simply add "..." at the end of every thought ... here is an example ... i bet you were looking for a real example but my real example was me writting about an example ... hahaha i love rambling ... anyways im pretty sure you know who this is ... stay well
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