Yoko lives in Nagasaka but she's from Tokyo. She's done a lot of traveling, has three children (youngest is 30) and has been divorced for 7 years. I smiled at her on the train from Nagasaka and well that was the start of a non-stop conversation about everything! She's cool. And boy is she a talker. She has a mean handshake, too. Yoko alighted at Hachioji. Nice to meet you Yoko!
Love chatting up strangers. Life is about community and communication after all.
Cool Beans.
ReplyDeletePeople around here, if you smile at them, look the other way and keep moving.
*sigh*
Or maybe it is just the way I smile at them, lol.
ReplyDeleteYea, but did you get her phone number and a dinner date?
ReplyDeleteKen - Yes. And her email address. So there. Ha!
ReplyDeleteLinda - Come visit me.
Linda, revisited - BTW, the other day I wanted to briefly mention "the bucket list". The thing that concerns me about that list is that it has an extremely high potential to be the place where people put all of their dreams that they are never going to bring to fruition. Why? Because, that list is something you keep filling with the stuff that can make one truly happy, deep down, and say, "I'd love to do that... one day". But for most people, that day will never come for as we age, we tend to naturally become less healthy, and once we get to that ripe old age (that phrase bothers me because it makes me think of the trash in mid-summer that gets "ripe with age"), our focus turns to our health. And our dreams, goals, wishes stay forever in that bucket.
ReplyDeleteCome to Japan. Just like Paula did. Just do it. Even for one week. I promise you will NOT regret that one week, and years later, just like Paula, the memories will bring such happiness to you, that they will guide you on to your next adventure that you choose not to put in "the bucket", but rather to put on the planning table.
Yoko sounds pretty neat Cam!!!! Awesome!!!!
ReplyDelete(Grin) Best of the day to you Linda!!! The funny looks and acting like they don't see ya stuff, is how we're able to identify all the out-of-towners down here in most of Texas. (Even in the monster cities like Houston)
The friendly-don't-want-anything attitudes seems to throw a lot of the Yankees for a real loop. (Hee-hee!!!)
Have a great day everyone and a fantastic week!!!!
Respectfully,
John F. Palermo
12 September 2011
John, don't you mean "Yeee haw!" ?
ReplyDeleteShe is a real chatter! And she loves traveling. I'm waiting to get an invite to go back to Nagasaka for the weekend some time! I promised her that if she invited me, I'd go.
Nope!!! That's them folks in Arkansas and Tennessee who use that phrase!!!! (GRIN)
ReplyDeleteBut if I were to use the "yee-haw",.. it would be with a distinctly Latin accent. It would come out sounding all wrong. Once my fellow Texans would be done with laughing themselves silly, and dusting themselves off,.... (sigh),.... I'd never hear the end of it.
It would be like a French Canadian trying to describe the flavor of a truffle in Paris France,... or then again, maybe that's not even close in terms of an analogy even if the point is that it wouldn't sound right.
Never the less, this young lady you met sounds pretty neat!!! The best of all things to the both of you!!!
And "AAA-YIIIIIIII HAAAOOO!!!!"
Respectfully,
John F. Palermo
12 September 2011
How about "Yippee cayoo, cayee" or however you spell that?
ReplyDeleteThat one I believe is Hollywood for something folks used to say up in the Montana territory. Either that or one of those 1950's Walt Disney songs about the old west, ... rather gruesome now that I think about it,... especially that one about Cow Patty.
ReplyDeleteA snippet of it goes something like this,... "forty shots were fired and forty bodies fell,... Cow Patty and the killer missed each other but they shot the town to hell,"
There were a lot of yippee yi-ayes in that one!!!
Thanks to Disney, folks still believe David Crockett was called Davy and wore a raccoon-skin hat.
I can't claim to know what the rest of the state uses anymore, ... thanks to TV and Hollywood, most Texans probably think it's "yeee-haw",...
The part of the state I'm from, it varied. The folks from up north would say "yee-haw",... the locals (me included) would do a crazy yell that sounded like a mix of Spanish and Indian with a lot of "Ay-yi-yi's" and rolling "R's", really loud whistles, and of course gun shots.
PS. Hope the invite to go back to Nagasaka comes soon!!!!!!!
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