20/01/10: Street Scene
Category: Korea
Posted by: LiteraryHero
For today's street scene, I have yet another crazy tale about a crazy person. At least I hope he was crazy, because if not...well...just read on to see. Just about ten minutes ago I was walking Jisun to the bus stop so she could go home. It is a bit drizzly today, but not bad enough to use an umbrella, just to set the mood. The rain has done a good job melting the remaining snow, however, so it is one giant mess outside. To make matters slightly more irritating, the bus stop was completely packed with people. I'm not sure why, but I had never seen it that crowded, and I go there daily.
Because so many people were at the bus stop, Jisun and I were standing a bit away from the crowd kind of towards the back of the sidewalk. Right where this bus stop is, there is a small kind of garden thing there in front of a building entrance that is recessed back a little bit. So, there we are, standing in the mucky drizzle, when out of the corner of my eye I see this weird movement. I know that the motion is coming from the garden, which is why I find it odd, so I turn around to see what is happening.
All of a sudden, right before my very eyes, a guy climbs out of the bushes. This might not seem that exciting, but you have to realize that this garden is a grand total of like five feet deep and ten feet long. On top of that, it is built into a box, so it is about two feet off the ground. So it is pretty strange to see a guy climbing out of there, to say the least.
To make matters even more strange, he was clothed rather strangely. When I say that he was clothed strangely, I mean that he was, in fact, wearing exactly these items: one waterlogged jacket. That is it. No shoes. No socks. No pants. No underwear. Just a blue jacket that was soaked all the way through. Ok, to give him the benefit of the doubt, he may have been wearing a shirt under the jacket, I couldn't really tell.
Out this guy walks, seemingly oblivious to the fact that he is nude from the waist down. I got a full frontal view of him, which is how I knew he didn't have any underwear on. There he is, business swinging in the (cold) breeze, without a care in the world. At this point I nudge Jisun to get her safely out of this guy's path, but it turns out it wasn't necessary. He just walked right past us and down the (very busy) street. The worst thing I noticed was that his backside and legs were completely covered in an unidentified brown substance that I am hoping was dirt. He was after all coming out of the bushes.
The guy walks down to the end of the block very casually, which was how I deduced that he had to be crazy. Any sane guy would have had some shame and hot footed it along in order to try to retain some dignity. Not this guy, though, he walked to the end of the block, looked around, turned back, and promptly lay down in the entrance of a building. Because of this, I surreptitiously took a picture of him with my camera phone, but unfortunately it is too blurry to see anything. Well, actually, it is probably quite fortunate for you, being as I would have posted it here, and an old crazy man's junk is nothing you want to see.
Any ideas of what the story is behind this guy? I'd like to hear some random speculation.
Because so many people were at the bus stop, Jisun and I were standing a bit away from the crowd kind of towards the back of the sidewalk. Right where this bus stop is, there is a small kind of garden thing there in front of a building entrance that is recessed back a little bit. So, there we are, standing in the mucky drizzle, when out of the corner of my eye I see this weird movement. I know that the motion is coming from the garden, which is why I find it odd, so I turn around to see what is happening.
All of a sudden, right before my very eyes, a guy climbs out of the bushes. This might not seem that exciting, but you have to realize that this garden is a grand total of like five feet deep and ten feet long. On top of that, it is built into a box, so it is about two feet off the ground. So it is pretty strange to see a guy climbing out of there, to say the least.
To make matters even more strange, he was clothed rather strangely. When I say that he was clothed strangely, I mean that he was, in fact, wearing exactly these items: one waterlogged jacket. That is it. No shoes. No socks. No pants. No underwear. Just a blue jacket that was soaked all the way through. Ok, to give him the benefit of the doubt, he may have been wearing a shirt under the jacket, I couldn't really tell.
Out this guy walks, seemingly oblivious to the fact that he is nude from the waist down. I got a full frontal view of him, which is how I knew he didn't have any underwear on. There he is, business swinging in the (cold) breeze, without a care in the world. At this point I nudge Jisun to get her safely out of this guy's path, but it turns out it wasn't necessary. He just walked right past us and down the (very busy) street. The worst thing I noticed was that his backside and legs were completely covered in an unidentified brown substance that I am hoping was dirt. He was after all coming out of the bushes.
The guy walks down to the end of the block very casually, which was how I deduced that he had to be crazy. Any sane guy would have had some shame and hot footed it along in order to try to retain some dignity. Not this guy, though, he walked to the end of the block, looked around, turned back, and promptly lay down in the entrance of a building. Because of this, I surreptitiously took a picture of him with my camera phone, but unfortunately it is too blurry to see anything. Well, actually, it is probably quite fortunate for you, being as I would have posted it here, and an old crazy man's junk is nothing you want to see.
Any ideas of what the story is behind this guy? I'd like to hear some random speculation.
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