So I went to buy dog food this morning…

[arlum]

Frontman,
The open honesty of your post was wonderful. Fresh air. Life may look different depending on location, beliefs, etc. but life is life. We all share and bear it together. Thank you.

 

[JPKmusicman]

What's it like to live with 35 million people in a small space? For me that would be total hell. I bet the dog agrees.

 

[GGardner]

wait...Amazon has beer?

That was my first reaction too! LOL! I immediately Googled it. Looks like Amazon delivers alcohol to some places, but not in NJ. Sigh.

 

[RomanS]

This is veering a bit off topic, but in my country (and most others except the US), you csn not only order beer, but also every kind of booze known to man on Amazon...

 

[pixeljammer]

…and found that the local convenience store had nothing but cat food in stock. That meant I had to walk to the nearby Don Quixote store, which is the only other place open early on a Saturday morning.

It was an interesting walk, as I live in Roppongi, in Tokyo, and Don Quixote (known as “Donki” in Japan) is pretty much in the middle of the night club district, the most notorious in Japan.

On Saturday mornings the club workers are all out on the street going home. Most of these clubs are adult-oriented, so there are lots of female and female-looking hostesses, dancers, and masseuses walking to the stations or bus stops. There are also the bartenders, touts, bouncers, and riffraff also going home. Add to this the drunks who missed the last train the night before, with the conscious ones staggering around like zombies, and the unconscious ones passed out on bus stops or behind vending machines.

Through this freak show are school kids going to school (yes, kids in Japan go to school on Saturdays), and the crossing guards are helping them cross the street. The police are out waking up the unconscious drunks, and a couple of them were being “entertained” by a group of young ladies (I think they were ladies) wearing fuzzy rabbit ears and cotton tails.

As I was getting near Don Quixote, a couple Thai “ladies” came up to me and encouraged me to get a massage. “You look like movie star!,” “You so tall,” and, “Where you from? We give you free massage!”

I managed to untangle myself, get into the store to buy dog food, and then leave by a different door so I could avoid the Thai “ladies.” Outside the door was an angry young drunk man having an argument with a plastic bag, he tried to kick the bag, only to fall over and hit his head on a curb, and start bleeding profusely all over a parked car.

Eventually I got home, fed the dog, and then ordered a several months supply of dog food (and some beer) from Amazon.

Take a camera next time. Sounds like street photography heaven!

 

[Peegoo]

So how was the “massage”?

@Frontman

Frontman's GF: "This is the FOURTH TIME this week you've walked to Donki for dog food. We have enough dog food for several months!"



Please post a pic of your pooch. It's part of the story!

 

[Refugee]

It has been my experience that dogs will eat almost anything. Shoulda just checked the fridge or cupboard for something and gone later. However, then you would've missed the journey/freak show, which is the prize.

 

[cminor7b5]

Great story, would make some great lyrics, set to the tune of Penny Lane.

I was thinking of early Lou Reed as i was reading it.

take a walk in Roppongi
I said, "hey babe take a walk in Roppongi"
and the Thai girls said
doot de doot de doot...

 

[effzee]

…and found that the local convenience store had nothing but cat food in stock. That meant I had to walk to the nearby Don Quixote store, which is the only other place open early on a Saturday morning.

It was an interesting walk, as I live in Roppongi, in Tokyo, and Don Quixote (known as “Donki” in Japan) is pretty much in the middle of the night club district, the most notorious in Japan.

On Saturday mornings the club workers are all out on the street going home. Most of these clubs are adult-oriented, so there are lots of female and female-looking hostesses, dancers, and masseuses walking to the stations or bus stops. There are also the bartenders, touts, bouncers, and riffraff also going home. Add to this the drunks who missed the last train the night before, with the conscious ones staggering around like zombies, and the unconscious ones passed out on bus stops or behind vending machines.

Through this freak show are school kids going to school (yes, kids in Japan go to school on Saturdays), and the crossing guards are helping them cross the street. The police are out waking up the unconscious drunks, and a couple of them were being “entertained” by a group of young ladies (I think they were ladies) wearing fuzzy rabbit ears and cotton tails.

As I was getting near Don Quixote, a couple Thai “ladies” came up to me and encouraged me to get a massage. “You look like movie star!,” “You so tall,” and, “Where you from? We give you free massage!”

I managed to untangle myself, get into the store to buy dog food, and then leave by a different door so I could avoid the Thai “ladies.” Outside the door was an angry young drunk man having an argument with a plastic bag, he tried to kick the bag, only to fall over and hit his head on a curb, and start bleeding profusely all over a parked car.

Eventually I got home, fed the dog, and then ordered a several months supply of dog food (and some beer) from Amazon.

Sounds awesome to me I bet the cops are cool and professional in dealing with the circus.

I had a similar encounter with two ladies on 42nd Street in NYC. I also had to wriggle myself free.

Later on I discovered they had stolen my wallet, with my brand new Army ID. That was on let's say a Saturday and I had to report for basic training on the following Monday.

When I told the sergeant at the desk at Ft Lee, he said, "that's a new one, it's usually the Navy guys that do dumb s*** like that".

1982 and I remember it like it was yesterday

 

[effzee]

It has been my experience that dogs will eat almost anything. Shoulda just checked the fridge or cupboard for something and gone later. However, then you would've missed the journey/freak show, which is the prize.

I'd like to introduce you my dog, the princess of fine dining. If it didn't have a pulse before it got served her, she won't touch it. She gets offered treats at stores. She sniffs cautiously, might take a test taste, then it's ptui ptui ptui, and the scornful look that follows.

 

[1293]

I doubt your dog would mind cat food.

My dogs eat cat food after the cats have processed it.

Litterbox sausages...

 

[Danb541]

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This is veering a bit off topic, but in my country (and most others except the US), you csn not only order beer, but also every kind of booze known to man on Amazon...

I recently discovered wild turkey 101. It's an excellent whisky at an excellent price IMHO.

 

[Refugee]

I'd like to introduce you my dog, the princess of fine dining. If it didn't have a pulse before it got served her, she won't touch it. She gets offered treats at stores. She sniffs cautiously, might take a test taste, then it's ptui ptui ptui, and the scornful look that follows.

Excuse me, waiter. There's a fly on my filet mignon.

 

[buster poser]

r/thathappened

 

[Greg70]

I don't want to sound bigoted/racist/etc, but how can you tell who is a Thai girl? I know Thailand is a different country but do Thais look physically different, or is it their behavior that identifies them? I've never been off the continent.

 

[Refugee]

I don't want to sound bigoted/racist/etc, but how can you tell who is a Thai girl? I know Thailand is a different country but do Thais look physically different, or is it their behavior that identifies them? I've never been off the continent.

Thai people tend to be much more darkly complected.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

I don't want to sound bigoted/racist/etc, but how can you tell who is a Thai girl? I know Thailand is a different country but do Thais look physically different, or is it their behavior that identifies them? I've never been off the continent.

Are you asking about the "Thai" or the "girl"?

 

[effzee]

Excuse me, waiter. There's a fly on my filet mignon.

Coq al dente

 

[bowman]

I have a friend who is half Japanese, and she still owns her mother’s house in Tokyo. She always has an interesting story or two when she comes back from there - perhaps not as “street-life” as the OP, but always some cultural behavior that I hadn’t heard of. I guess with so many millions of people living so closely, it’s inevitable to have weird things happening everywhere you look.

 

[Refugee]

I have a friend who is half Japanese, and she still owns her mother’s house in Tokyo. She always has an interesting story or two when she comes back from there - perhaps not as “street-life” as the OP, but always some cultural behavior that I hadn’t heard of. I guess with so many millions of people living so closely, it’s inevitable to have weird things happening everywhere you look.

Hmm, sounds kinda like Vegas....only bigger.