After lighting sparklers and setting off some fireworks at the local playground we headed to a local bar appropriately called “USA Bar.” It lived up to all our expectations. Run by a middle-aged, partially deaf Japanese cowboy/surfer, the tiny bar was covered in American license plates, flags and posters, as well as all kinds of paraphernalia bearing the logo “captain santa.”
Here is our bartender friend posing for the camera. Note “santa island” polo -->
We sat around chatting with the bartender, his friend/fellow bartender and another patron who was a bit sloshed (he kept asking me why American women aren’t attracted to Japanese men and then wanted to talk about the war – a bit beyond my language capabilities, let alone his own intoxicated state). We of course sang some karaoke and Ben gave the guy another one of his Texas flags (which he said made him “so happy” that he kept kissing it).
All in all it was a fun night of unexpected amusement. Not your typical july 4 celebration but then again, those are the ones that stick with you I guess.
4 comments:
Kinda fun to know that American Independence Day was being celebrated on the other side of the world! So when you were out in the park lighting sparklers and setting off fireworks, did you get any questions or comments from Japanese passersby? Or did they seem to know what day it was for you?
And of the course, the burning question really is...Why AREN'T American women attracted to Japanese men - or is that even true?? One wonders...
BTW that was Mom, not Jeff, writing...
Haha, I always got the war question, but usually from some deranged homeless guys.
momma> hard question to answer, although i think it's a two-way street. in other words, i think a lot of japanese men aren't really attracted to american women. but if i had to point to one reason that american women don't go for japanese men, perhaps because a japanese man can carry a purse and not be any less of a man? :)
also, have you considered changing your name to "mary" on the posting thing? would solve any possible confusion..
shiwei> granted the guy was drunk but i thought it was a perfectly valid question to be asking. prob is, i have no valid answer other than that, no, i do not agree with the war and it seems to me most americans do not agree with the war but that doesn't seem to have any effect on the decisions being made by our government.
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