Jim Breen <jimbreen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 11:19:59 UTC+11, mtfe...@netmapsonscape.net  wrote:

> > One of my old buchou use 'watakushi' when he wanted to brow-beat someon.

> The only time I ever heard 'watakushi' in Japan was at a Girl
> Scouts ceremony, and they were reciting the Promise.

It's a Tokyo-type thing; over-politeness in order to insult.

Mike