Just got back from lunch.
Saw something today I thought I would never see in Japan. I do not know if this term is known throughout the US, but it's called "Dine and Dash" in Indiana. Very popular among college kids. You order, get your food, eat some and then escape before you have to pay. Surely something as dishonorable as this would never happen in Japan, right? I was wandering around the train station looking for something to eat and found one of these places where you get noodle soup, but you eat standing up. I got my soup and a kind of grimy guy came in after me. He got something slightly different, ate for a few mintues and then walked quietly out. I looked surprised and so did the lady behind the counter. I think she couldn't believe it because she put his bowl on the shelf behind the counter and waited several minutes before dumping out. Couldn't understand what she was saying when she was grumbling to the cook. I guess I should not have been surprised, this is maybe not the best part of town - I saw a guy taking a leak in a nearby alley.
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Theft like this in Japan is a very dishonorable thing to do. I bet that the owner of the noodle soup place was angry.
BTW, did the noodle soup place also sell 500mL bottles of beer to wash down your dinner? I always loved that utility of the noodle soup restaurants!
One evening when I was in Tokyo in the 80s I saw a guy peeing on a tree on the main street of Ginza. Well, it was on a gingko tree (I think it's "ginya," in Japanese) and he was a little drunk. OK, a lot drunk.
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