Our Old Man

Ron wrote about this on his own blog, but I thought that I would write the translated version. About a month ago we went to the local bath house since our bath tub decided to turn off the hot water...again. So as I was showering up on the girls side, I heard the voice of Ron on the other side, not surprisingly talking to a Japanese man. Ron always comments about hating the foreigner attention when he is naked. So as Ron and I meet outside, he tells me that this man wants to take us out to sushi. He is a man over 70, whose wife is in the hospital and he as no children. So we decided to go on an adventure and hang out with this old man. We went with him to the sushi place and he destroyed us with the drinking. Beer and sochu were coming at every direction while plates of sashimi, katsu, and tempura were also being forced down our throats. We could barely walk back home, but we figured that our company made this man very happy. End of the story...so we thought.

About a week ago, Ron and I went to our donut shop to try and get some quality studying since we had been recently lagging. A phone call comes and it is our old man. He stops by the donut store and begins to talk with us (good Japanese practice?) When we get the chance to leave he insists of buying us some donuts, which we tried so hard to politely pass on. Finally when we tell him, "OK, 1 ko" He says "no no no 5 ko." We tell him that 5 will make us fat and he says "Don't worry, we will also buy fruit." So after buying us 5 donuts, we guiltily follow him to the grocery store where he buys us tangerines, cherries, and watermelon. I'm sure he would have bought us more if we weren't whining so much. Ron and I were feeling really bad about this until at the check out stand our old man goes to the check out lady and says,

"Do you see them? They are foreigners. They are my friends."

And the biggest smile was on his face. So I guess buying our company makes him feel good and he's not a bad guy. We have a tonkatsu date with him on Friday. Luckily, since that drinking night we've decided to give up drinking for the test. Hopefully, he takes our polite rejection for the real thing. NO MORE SOCHU!