Wow, of all the openers to use for a conversation with a stranger…
I know I haven’t been blogging much lately. No real reason. I guess that things have been pretty routine lately, and I’ve not been getting out a lot, so there’s not been much new to write about.
Until today.
I had a date lined up for tonight, so I spent a little extra time this morning making sure my place was presentable. In doing so, I missed my regular train and caught the next one after to get to work. It was while on this train (which I’ve never ridden before) that I heard this entry’s titular question:
“Money or pussy?”
I wasn’t even sure I’d heard it at first, as I had the iPod going (playing a podcast by the Penny Arcade guys). I took off one earphone and looked in the direction I thought the question had come from. There sat a foreign chick I’d never met, so I was pretty sure she hadn’t just said what I thought I’d heard.
Then she repeated herself.
Even then, I asked, “what?”
“Why are you in Japan?” she wanted to know. “Is it for the money or the pussy?”
Wow. How to answer that?
I laughed and made some half comment about the money could be a little better. She went into full on rant mode at that.
“Yeah, well, there are only two reasons anybody comes to this country, and that’s money or pussy, Because nobody likes Japan and if it weren’t for money or pussy, nobody’d ever consider living here.”
Again, wow.
I have no idea what put the chip on this broad’s shoulder, but it must’ve been some serious shit.
She went on further about how at least guys can make up for the money thing by getting pussy, but that for foreign chicks, Japan really sucks. I knew of more than a few counter-examples, but we were about 30 seconds out from my station.
As the train pulled to a stop, she kept on ranting, not caring that her audience was heading out the door. I left her with a “well, as bad as you may find Japan, it’s heaps better than Korea.”
Which it is.
(Though not for the money with the Korean Won being where it is now. ^.^)