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Japan's Children Ignore Homeboy's Toothless Face · 19 November 04
Japanese High School Teacher Emeregency Tactic #397 :
Always have absurd photos from home ready to flip out any time they’re drifting. Brings ‘em back every time.
For example:
See the funny? It’s obvious, right?
Homeboy has no freaking front tooth. He’s smiling and feeling good.
My sister (top) is on the phone with a Phone-a-Nurse of Williamsburg, VA (really), explaining to her that, no, we really don’t have any milk to preserve the tooth that fell out of Homeboy’s head, and, no, we don’t have anything dairy at all, because we’re all lactose intolerant. Yes, ma’am, every last one of us.
(I’m leaving Homeboy’s identifying details out, so potential employers/dates don’t Google him and prematurely disregard my pal as a prospective employee/lover due to his one-time lack of tooth.)
These pictures kill me. But when I show them to a class here, you hear no laughter.
“Ooooooooooooooooooooooh,” say all the girls in the class. “Chest! Chest!”
I look at them, confused.
“Hair, hair!” they say.
Body hair. It ain’t that common here.
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