No.4642
what's up with these fucking screens they've put up does being obsessed with face really permeate everything in japan
No.4646
Once I was at a bus stop after hitting the bars after work. I was smoking a cigarette and a mean, wild-looking ex-con tattooed muscle guy rolled in like he owned the place and said "gimme a cigarette, fat stuff."
It was 2:00 a.m. and he had another gangbanger looking dude with him and other than that it was pretty deserted. No transit staff, no cops, no witnesses.
I had the intense feeling that if I'd shown any hesitation he'd have just started pummeling me and then robbed me and took all my shit. I was poor and young and new to the city and I certainly had a cigarette to spare so I just gave it to him and he immediately left. No thank you or anything. Like he just did that shit all the time.
I was relieved. Never bothered me all that much because no one saw. Not worth risking even the slightest discomfort over a little disrespect. I've never had to take a lot of shit off of people but that was one time I was afraid of someone and didn't stand up to them. It was another insult on the pile that helped motivate me to lose weight too. Something about "fat stuff" was way worse than "fatass" or "fatboy" or "fatfuck".
I guess I was even more timid than the gas station proprietor.