{"id":81925,"date":"2008-06-26T21:50:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T12:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=81925"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:19","slug":"defeat-the-foreign-racing-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20080626\/everyday-events\/defeat-the-foreign-racing-episode","title":{"rendered":"Defeat the Foreign Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Finally made my Pasmo debut yesterday.
\nThis is so convenient! I don’t have to buy individual tickets anymore \u2605
\nSo I got off at Nakameguro and walked through the shopping street, where there’s this quirky shop selling odd trinkets.
\nI peeked in once and they carry the most mysterious things.
\nThe shop clerk is a white foreign gentleman. I’m kind of uncomfortable with him somehow…
\nI’m determined not to even use Japanese English if I can help it!
\nI’ll take this one \u2605
\nHe said “Sure \u2605” and placed the shark right in front of me…
\n# Without putting it in a bag! Is it because I’m wearing a big tote bag over my shoulder??
\nAfter I paid and was about to grab the shark\u2014
\n“Would you like a bag???”
\nI thought, why didn’t you ask me in the first place… and I blurted out “No no, I don’t need it” ahhhhhhh
\nI lost.
\nThis shop is next to a yakitori place.
\nIn summer, keeping your wallet and phone in your pockets is annoying and hot…
\nI was wearing a waist bag over my shoulder, but it was completely empty inside.
\nI wondered if there was anything I could use…
\nAnd I was walking past the shop\u2014
\nOh! Ohhhhh \u2605 A shark!
\nIt’s a shark! Definitely a shark! I couldn’t help but buy it!
\nThere’s a matching backpack (kids’ size) too, which is way over the top!
\nThe inside of the mouth is red… and the zipper is a fish…
\nIt doesn’t hold as much as I thought \u2605 Oh shark~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

   Finally made my Pasmo debut yesterday. This is so convenient! I don’t have to buy individual tickets anymore \u2605 So I got off at Nakameguro and walked through the shopping street, where there’s this quirky shop selling odd trinkets. I peeked in once and they carry the most mysterious things. The shop clerk is a white foreign gentleman. I’m kind of uncomfortable with him somehow… I’m determined not to even use Japanese English if I can help it! I’ll take this one \u2605 He said “Sure \u2605” and placed the shark right in front of me… # Without putting it in a bag! Is it because I’m wearing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-81925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}