stay out of my fucking house you fucking NHK guy
The NHK guy came by tonight for his monthly TV ransom, and since I had my darkroom all set up I figured he would see through the narrow frosted glass window that there were no lights and that I must not be home. To block out the light from the porch light, I leave my bathroom door open and it matches up neatly with a fold out closet door to make a light trap.
He first rang at about 8:10 and I just ignored him, concentrating instead on printing. He did not let up in his knocking and his ringing. For a while I just kind of laid there on the floor not blocking the saftelight and hoping that he would leave. It would be quiet for a while and then again he would ring the doorbell. More time passed and I was debating in my mind if it was worth the 30 bucks that I knew he came for just to get him off of my porch so that I could get back to work. Again he rang and I got to the “screw it” point and went back to work while I heard more quiet knocks and muffled “Konbanwas”. I thought they were muffled because he naturally was standing outside of my door, not inside my genkan. So after a bit of silence (at around 8:35) I concluded that if he were to knock one more time, I would come to the door and explain that I was busy printing photographs and so I could not get to the door in the 20 minutes he was out there. By the way, it is freezing out, and there is still a lot of the recent 7 inches of snow over everything. So I opened the main door from my kitchen (it has a glass window in it, which is why I need a light trap made of my bathroom and closet doors) and as I flicked on the entryway lights I found a very suprised NHK man inside my fucking house.
You know what dude, that shit can get you shot to hell where I am from.
I should have locked my doors and all but then this guy still asks me for 5000 yen to cover my NHK bill (I was gone for half the month anyways), and tried to get on my case when I only offered him 3000 yen because that was all I could afford out of my wallet without a 20 min walk in the snow to the nearest ATM.
Luckily he gave me a recipt. With the help of a teacher at school tomorrow, NHK will be contacted and no way is NHK ever going to get my yen again. Yamashita san, tonight was the last time you got to ring my doorbell.
Even if it is just some 50 something old NHK collector, that second after flipping on the lights and finding an unauthorized human being waiting for you in your own house is not something that is at all cool.
Dude, he was probably hoping you were a nubile, blonde haired, 6′3″ college co-ed instead of a nubile, browinsh haired college grad.
We here in Tsukuba think that you should definitely call the police. Apparently he is not supposed to come into the house until invited in by the resident? Hm. Maybe you could even get your ¥3,000 back. CALL THE POLICE! HE WANTS TO TOUCH YOUR BUGE HOOBS.
the pervert.
(I don’t think we’ve ever paid. 「私たちは、テレビがありません。」)
Comment by Nick — 1/23/2006 @ 10:08 pm
oh, PS. You should get in touch with DEBITO. You may have discrimination-against-gaijin case on your hands!
Comment by Nick — 1/23/2006 @ 10:09 pm
When I first started reading this I thought it was headed down a different path… I thought perhaps you were doing some developing and he walked in on you, ruining your negatives.
I suppose that could have been worse. Weird none the less
Comment by Brett — 1/24/2006 @ 12:19 am
Did you photograph him?
Comment by Bradley — 1/24/2006 @ 1:33 am
You know, after he left I began to wish that I would have photographed the look on his face after he saw mine. But then again I did not expect him to be inside so I did not have a camera on me at the time.
No prints were ruined through the whole deal either.
Comment by John — 1/24/2006 @ 7:02 am
I’ve had the same thing happen with the 宅急便 guy. Except I wasn’t printing photos.
Comment by Mark Larios — 1/24/2006 @ 8:02 am
you know what?
I was always wondering how they pick their pray to collect money.
I have lived my apartment in kitasenjyu for more than 6 months i have not seen anyone from NHK
even once in my building.
I would probably tell them that ” I would pay you if you guys would use the money properly not fopr dirty money.
Maybe you became good pray for them when you paid them last time.
life is not fair man..
Comment by a girl from shinjyuku — 1/24/2006 @ 10:37 am
well, i have a couple of hotel maids walk in on me naked in nagoya and osaka, at least you werent naked. these ladies did not knock. then they apologized outside my door for a couple of minutes.knowing what i look like naked, i should have apologized to them, regardless, at least he knocked. you better call up debito. he will know what to do.
Comment by kevin — 1/24/2006 @ 11:10 am