{"id":113,"date":"2011-02-06T16:06:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T22:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2011-02-06T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T22:18:23","slug":"oh-go-blow-your-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2011\/02\/06\/oh-go-blow-your-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, go blow your nose!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran out of tissues.\u00a0 It’s unheard of!<\/p>\n

First of all, you have to understand that a popular Japanese marketing tactic, espcially with pachinko parlors, health products, clubs, and even restaurants is to hire a young person to hand out little packets of tissues with tiny advertisements tucked into them.\u00a0 They’re very handy, so when you whip one out to blow your nose, you can be reminded to be grateful to PIA Pachinko, or GERA GERA Manga cafe, or “GIRLS Pop Club MELODY around the corner.<\/p>\n

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When walking down the street, on a good day, I used to be able to collect about five.\u00a0 I take them home and put them in a bag for a rainy day.\u00a0 The bag got quite full.<\/p>\n

WELL, maybe this method of advertisement isn’t bringing in so many customers.\u00a0 Maybe it’s the hard economic times. Or maybe I’m not in the client range of many kids of companies and they cut back on their advertising budget;\u00a0 or their employees are told to target certain pedestrians, because I ran out last week!!!!! *gasp*\u00a0 I’ve been using toilet paper to blow my honker, and it is not pleased.\u00a0 (the honker)\u00a0 But up til now, I could say, “I have never spent money on tissues in my five years of living in Japan!”\u00a0 How can I go and break that now??<\/p>\n

My friend Rachel, who lives and teaches teenagers in Toyama, Northern Japan, was visiting Tokyo for her student’s speech contest.\u00a0 She stayed at my place last night rather than getting a hotel room.\u00a0 Originally from West Virgina (USA), we’d both done a year abroad in Japan in our jr. year of college.\u00a0 Joined together from our love of anime and Japanese culture, we had many adventures together, and we’re still young!<\/p>\n

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Rachel and Roxy at Studio Alta, Shinjuku<\/p><\/div>\n

So we were paroozing the streets of Shunjuku and Ikebukuro after work.\u00a0 Our conversation included lack-of-tissue-lamentation, and we tried to veer into the path of people waving tissues in front of young lady’s noses.\u00a0 Most of them were rejected.\u00a0 DUDE, TAKE THE TISSUES!\u00a0 Or give them to me!\u00a0 Leave the paper-only ads- who needs those?\u00a0 Rachel said, “If it don’t got Kleenex, I don’t want’em.”\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 But the guy snatched them away when we walked by.\u00a0 What, so a foreigner isn\u2019t in your clientele? -_-;\u00a0 So, Rachel snatched away the tissue packet which the guy had lowered to his hip, and handed it to me as we walked away.\u00a0 SMOOTH!! \ud83d\ude00\u00a0 I don’t have the guts to do that!<\/p>\n

This is a really cool door to some clothing store we passed in Ikebukuro!\u00a0 We went there to the huge 6 story anime store to find a cell phone cover, but they didn’t what I wanted. oh well..<\/p>\n

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