weekend…. lets see what did i do this past weekend. it was pretty fun… but as you knowi am freaking out lately about my back. the thing with my back… i have sciatica. basically my spine is in good condition… straight and all… but the connections between the lumbar and the nerve (called sciatic nerve) is very narrow… so… its pinching the nerve. might go away… might not. its … i dont know. last week was hell. but the weekend was good. possibly cause i was having too much fun. i might have to stay another year here in japan… because of medical insurance. if i leave i lose this insurance, which i can get another… but i wont have a sweet deal like this… and with mental stress and the back… just too much to handle on my own right now… here i get to save about $1,000 a month… which is awesome. another incentive.
now about the weekend. friday went with a friend of mine to a health bar. took him for the first time. i guess he liked it. he probably wont go again. i dont blame him. i mean… it’s not everyone’s bag. we’ll see. the girl he got sounds like she was into it.
saturday i saw batman!!!!! woooo!!!! FREAKING AWESOME! BEST BATMAN EVER!!! it was phenominal! just amazing. it was complex, deep, intelligent… even scary. NOT for kids.
then… oh yeah…. i got into a fight with a japanese dude… man was that wierd. i just go to park my car… and i open my door… and i guess i took longer than i needed … but cause of my back…. i had my door open for like a minute trying to get out… so this guy honks… for me to close my door! i look around… there are TONS of parking spots! his car could go into any of them, without even changing position… he could just go a LITTLE left and roll into another parking spot. but no… hewants the one next to me, and honks to tell me to close the door! What do i do? yep boys and girls, you guessed it… i pick a fight.
I dont close the door. I get out, and look right at him… then smile. I wait for him to get out… and ask him directly….
“why dont you just park in another spot?”
“close your door quicker please…” he responds (this is next to his girlfriend by the way…
my response… “FUCKING JAP! watch your mouth and be careful how you talk to me!”
he just laughs nervously… and starts to walk away (mind you i am 2 x his height)
later i was told that the words i used were actually kind of polite. he got the message but still polite. the only thing is that I did say Fucking Jap… which all japanese understand as very very aggressive. with all my stress… i would have loved for him to try to fight me. worried about my back… but other than that… i would have relieved a lot of stress beating the suds out of him in front of his girlfriend.