Wasabi <blue.mountains@org.invalid> wrote:
> "John W." <worthj1970@gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 10:48:10 PM UTC-6, Band Beyond You
> > wrote: 
> >> Band Beyond You <emailTHIS@fractalicious.com> wrote:
> >> > Michael Cash <mikecash@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> I do wish this place hadn't died.....
> >> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > Echo that, gaigin-sama-tachi...
> >> 
> >> I miss the Michael Cash offers to ride through Tokyo in his truck...
> > 
> > Wait, he offered to give you a ride in his truck? You sure he wasn't
> > talking some hentai stuff? 

> I think it was from one of Michael's posts that I learned that men
> outside Tokyo never use "watashi", just "ore" or "boku", but I couldn't
> help wondering if maybe that was just truck drivers. 

Not that I could see; never heard a guy outside of Tokyo use "watashi".
One of my old buchou use 'watakushi' when he wanted to brow-beat someon.

> You've got to love a nation that has come up with at least six words for
> "I" but then doesn't bother using any of them most of the time. 

Or "you"

Mike