Sunday, September 25, 2005

They Tell No Tales

So Richie found a human skull. It was dark. He was in Japan. What more do you want?

(It was dark. She was tired. They went swimming?)

Alarmed, as is the natural reaction toward such sightings, Richie and Friends went to the cops. Cops asked them where skull came from. Afraid that they'd be arrested (they were en route to breaking into a monkey zoo...), they hesitantly retraced their steps (not step by step, but a general idea) for the police, going through narrow paths and climbing over a lot of fences while hoping the cops don't ask questions. It was getting late and everyone was a little spooked. Then they came along this far out side of some path, went down its really steep hill, and found a pile of clothes. What stood out first was a bone jutting out of the pile.

Moi: So you discovered a crime scene?! How are you not traumatized?!

Richie: It wasn't a crime scene. We didn't know at the time, but they found out later he was a 78 year old man that probably just got lost and disoriented, fell, and went undiscovered. Yeah, so the police told us to kneel down by it so they could take pictures.

Moi: You had to kneel by a dead guy?

Richie: We kept thinking, 'are you serious? What?! My Japanese isn't that great but I could've sworn that's what he said.' But they had to take pictures and wanted us to kneel.

Moi: That's so absurd. You discovered a body?! You saw a skull.

Richie: Yeah, and a week later, there was an earthquake. I had a good time there though. It's a great place.

(He didn't kneel.)

I can't wait to study abroad.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

yay! thanks for the story!

oh i think you know who this is

Anonymous said...

hey now choose either blogger or xanga, but not both. You think i enjoy schlepping about from one side of the internet to the other just to see if you've updated?

oi, my back.

-lenordita

Anonymous said...

...and one more thing. whenever i post a comment blogger makes me type out some random assortment of letters they came up with as a security measure. presumably, if you don't type those letters correctly, then you are an internet baddie and cannot comment on blogger. and yet, what if you're dyslexic? or not wearing your glasses? what if i type the wrong letters this time and you don't get to see this comment? wouldn't that be HORRIBLE?