The 2-Belo wrote:
> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that CL has
> exploded. Flight director confirms that:
> 
>> The 2-Belo wrote:
>>> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Jim Breen has
>>> exploded. Flight director confirms that:
>>>
>>>> chuckers wrote:
>>>>> Debito is probably going to *LOVE* this:
>>>>>
>>> Heh. Avoid confrontation in the interest of not making a fuss? That sounds like
>>> the classic Japanese way of doing things! And they say we refuse to assimilate?!
 >>
>> There's that and there's also picking your battles.  I figure that, if I 
>> can influence the outcome about 5% of the time, I'm ahead of the curve 
>> for a White Boy in Wa.
> 
> Another way to do it is to sic your wife on 'em.

Too dangerous.  First off, my wife is not Japanese ... she's Edokko. 
Certificated and certified.  "Japanese" are the weaklings who are 
allowed to share the islands with The Chosen Ones.  Buddha help the 
people who get _THAT_ wrong.

Thanks to a husband that has clients who can't properly organize a trip 
to the toilet, much less anything as complicated as grabbing your own 
kid and making a run for the airport, my wife has a bit of a reputation 
with several cop shops in and around Kanto from run-ins in which I have 
enlisted her help.  We actually had a case this past May in which the 
Chief of Detectives did an "Ohisashiburi, okusan!" and proceeded to tell 
my wife where we'd crossed paths before.

He then informed us that, since it was her and he knew she (I'd say "we" 
but there were only two Human Beings talking and me just listening 
quietly) was okay and serious, he was waiting for the guy's wife to come 
and get their kid and then he was going to kick the guy loose with a 
stern warning because he didn't want any more trouble and just wanted to 
get back on with serious police type work.

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CL