Our Man had time off for good behaviour yesterday afternoon, and after inspecting the
Abikan surface fleet, popped by his favourite coffee bean emporium. The place looks a little worse for wear and tear - despite being
at the centre of the Earth - and the proprietor is, by standards of business etiquette, quite rude. Remarking to Our Man's missus about how cute our kids were one day, he told her "You must be their stepmother." Anyway, as Our Man battled his way out of the stiff manual sliding door, the master-san couldn't help himself: "My, you're looking pretty fat these days!"
Our Man had to agree that his Christmas paunch was looking highly unseasonable and wondered why he kept coming back to the place to be insulted. Because in the anodyne world of slick marketeers and two-faced money-grabbing politicians who will tell you anything to string you along (this is called the customer is always right) it was refreshing to hear the truth. No matter how unwelcome. And you thought Japanese were always polite.
4 comments:
Must be all those Lattes
WW,is that a polite way of saying donuts and fried chicken?
have you thought about starting smoking again,I hear it's a cracking appetite suppressant.
rather die thin and young than fat and young.
I should know,being into medicine and all that.
Thanks for the medical advice. Here's some more:
I went to the doctor's, and he told me I was fat. I told him I wanted a second opinion. He said: "OK, you're fat and ugly."
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