2.40pm Sunday 22nd July
At SETSTOCK’07 in Hiroshima Prefecture. Current band: Chatmonchy. At least, I think that’s their name.
2.40pm Friday 20th July
An elderly Japanese man stopped me in the street and told me emphatically that I needed an umbrella. It was raining but only lightly, so I felt I could walk through the rain to get myself a small compact umbrella to keep, since tsuyu doesn’t seem to want to quit yet. He shoo-ed me into the nearby kiosk where he told me I could buy an umbrella. I thanked him and went inside. No umbrellas were visible but I picked up the paper to read with lunch. Suddenly the man appears behind me and asks the staff for an umbrella and pulls out his wallet. I tried telling him that he didn’t have to pay, but he did anyway and refused to take my money. He then smiled and waved at me and disappeared before I could protest or thank him properly. Hiroshima is messing with my head.
