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Quite an eventful day!
Finally I got the big win I was waiting for: 56,000 Yen! Pachinko is a funny game; just when you think it's time to quit, you start winning and winning. Today I had a magic machine or something - it just kept on going and going! Anyway, that's put me back on top in my Pachinko career. Now the trick is not to spend it all like last time!! They say,"Anyone who plays Pachinko is a fool!" And I agree. Even if you win, chances are you'll put it all back in. But not I, for the adage is for fools, and I am no fool - I am a plonker!
A lady at work put into words something quite interesting about the Japanese mentality: Japanese, in general, live within their own metaphoric little box. They live within this box without bothering anyone on the outside. They don't reach out of it with open hands, nor do they reach out of it clutching a knife: They exisit with their box, that's all. This way, a kind of natural harmony evolves. They often come out of their box to greet and talk with foreigners out of curiosity and often kindness, but other strangers are kept at a distance. What is often seen as coldness on the part of the Japanese, I think is a kind of ultra-private nature, a desire to not risk losing harmony. A cynic would see it a different way, but I just won 56,000 yen so I don't really care for cynicism!
And I met a Japanese guy who'd studied in America for 4 years and we had a chat whilst playing Pachinko. He was almost certainly gay; everything he did was just like a girl. Or maybe he was a girl, I don't know. Well, no, he was a man, that's for sure! Anyway, I'll refrain from making a Pachinko pun at this juncture....
So that was it, my day in Tokyo, Japan.
posted by PA on Friday, April 23, 2004
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