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To Do List: Yell at Girls From Car Window · 5 September 06

Large Little Brother, Surfing
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It was summer on the beach and we were walking.

The Bigger Younger Brother, the Well-Muscled Japanese Med Student, the Athletic Lawyer and I, all four on the sidewalk.

We had no shirts on, and it was hot. (I am sticks-and-bones, my friends are not.)

From behind came a great honking and yelling. It was a car-full of girls. “Whoooo!” they said. “Whoooo! Whooo!”

These things happen when one travels with companions of great strength.

I laughed. “Yeah,” I yelled back. They laughed and whooed and Dopplered away. The Well-Muscled Japanese Med Student stopped walking.

“Do you know them?” he asked.

“No,” I said.

He looked at where they’d been, then looked back.

“Why did they do that?” he asked.

I thought. “I don’t know,” I said. “To have fun, I guess.”

His eyes went wide and he smiled and laughed. “Do girls do that often here?”

“I dunno. It’s not weird for it to happen at the beach,” I said. He looked like he wanted more explanation. “I mean, it’s just kind of different at the beach. It’s okay here,” I said.

“We should do that,” he said.

“What? Yell at girls?”

“Yes, we should do that.”

“You mean when we get back to Japan?”

“Yes,” he said. “We should do that we get back to Japan.”

NOTE: The above shot is the little brother. And no, I’m not in America anymore. Just slow with all the film.
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BONUS:
Aforementioned Japanese dude and brother. With mysterious expressions.
You Don't Want to Know

No clue where those expressions came from. Feel free to comment and guess.

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  1. I’ll be at the beach many weekends for the next 2 months. Feel free to yell.
    — Brooke    1978 days ago    #

  2. I would yell at you baby!
    — Dan    1977 days ago    #

  3. Get that athletic lawyer self back to Japan so that you can!
    — Brooke    1977 days ago    #

  4. Why are older siblings so disgruntled when their younger siblings end up taller? My sister has an annoying habit of introducing me to people as her Bigger Little Sister…it’s not my fault she stop growing at 5’5 and I ended up surpassing her by five inches. Shorter older siblings need to stop doing this, as it often makes everyone else feel awkward.
    — Mel    1977 days ago    #

  5. MEL: Oh, I’m not disgruntled.

    Explaining that my younger brother is bigger (in the sense of way more muscled out) is kind of key to understanding the story, especially for people who have met me, but not my brother.

    Otherwise people might read it and assume that my sibling were similarly built, and say unto themselves, “Wait, why’d the girls yell at a group including a shirtless sibling of Saleem? Were they fans of hunger-strikes? Skeleton-crazed med student enthusiasts of visible rib cages? Devotees of the Sally Struthers’ '10-cent-a-day children: Where are they now’ Christmas Special?”

    But if you know he’s differently built, it makes a lot more sense, see.

    TO THOSE USING THIS SITE AS A PLACE TO NOT-SO-SUBTLY HIT ON EACH OTHER: That’s good stuff.
    — saleem    1977 days ago    #

  6. Yet you can see in the pictures that your brother’s build is completely different from your own, thus eliminating your need for certain expressions. Granted, that statement stands only if you respect the intelligence of your readership enough to gather that they’d conclude you were the little man out on their own.
    — Mel    1976 days ago    #

  7. No worries, I totally respect y'all. And agree that redundant photo descriptions are, uh, redundant.

    Weird circumstance, though: Local folks view the site on a Japanese school network that now blocks my photos (see admittedly hard-to-find note on sidebar). When it comes to really photo-based posts, I won't even try, but on the story-kind of posts I'll try and keep the no-picture people happy with relevant descriptions.

    Overall, if "Bigger Younger" siblings have become passe, I'll do my best to avoid them in the future. Cliches=not optimal. As do typing systems that make it tricky for me to put that little thing over the 'e'.

    Ooh, it's getting too meta. Fresh post this weekend rather soon. Til then, someone hit on somebody or something.
    — saleem    1976 days ago    #

  8. Hey Andy—wanna #@#@% my %#%!$?
    — Byzek    1972 days ago    #

  9. Jeff, I do not, in fact, want to #$%* your $#@&*. I may, however, want to @#*$% your $#$*$.

    How’s that sound?
    — andy    1972 days ago    #

  10. What the #$%*?
    — Keith    1970 days ago    #

  11. I’m sure Byzek and Andy could make a fortune in Mexico…
    — Mel    1969 days ago    #

  12. I just wish Andy and Jeff would be more subtle…and that’s all I have to say about that.
    — Michael    1969 days ago    #

  13. I’ve been reading your website for nearly 2 years now and I think it’s super entertaining. I wanted to send you an e-mail but there is no e-mail link on here. I found your site through Dan Rearick, we were in Puerto Rico together for a little while… I’d like to invite you to write a post or two to the new site I started: http://watching-people.blogspot.com
    The more collaboration from people around the world the better, and you are unmatched when it comes to hilarious social commentary! E-mail me if you get this!

    -Justin (jbrandon2{at]gmail.com)
    — Justin    1968 days ago    #

  14. Man, I need to remember to follow up when I ask somebody to #$%. Talk about missed opportunities…
    — Byzek    1959 days ago    #

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