Drinking in Japan
It is a fundamental custom of Japanese culture that you have to go drinking with your coworkers. Quite often ALL THE TIME. I wanna know the guy that invented this custom.
Was he just walking along one day, and he thought, "Man, I go to work every day, but I just can't seem to go out drinking as much as I want. Oh, I know! We'll have to make it a custom to get shitfaced every night!!! Muahahaha!!! Muahahaha!!!"
Luckily, working in a foreign company, I am pretty much exempt from this rule. Which is a good thing, otherwise my liver would turn into beef jerky.
But, sooner or later I go out drinking with friends or coworkers, and I regret it. (The drinking, not the people)
After my first night out partying in Tokyo ever, I woke up and.... er... on the other hand, let's save that tale for a rainy day.
But last week I went out drinking with some friends and... well, I can't remember too much to be honest. There was dinner. And then a bar. Where I met a guy with a Ph.D. in philosophy. Me being a philosophy bug, we talked quite a bit. But you alcoholic party animals don't want to hear about 19th century German philosophers, do you? I should have been looking for an attractive girl to talk to, but oh well.
After this we left and went to some... er... "dodgy" looking bar, which was mostly empty (it was a weeknight and still relatively early). I remember something about a Ukrainian girl, and there was a giant robotic Santa harnessed up to the top of the bar doing some kind of pelvic thrusts. Or dancing. I was pretty plastered, but neither would surprise me.
Then we headed back, as there was work the next day. Good thing too, because as I don't drink too much, I had such a killer hangover the next day that I was barely functional.
Sucky ending, but that's what you get with weeknights...
Jeff "Jeff" Peaceful
- 15 years, 11 months, 9 days ago
