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For starters, I follow this blog for the insane amounts of humor that comes from it. However, I didn’t particularly think that I’d be posting on here. So, here goes.
I work at a Food Lion in Tennessee. Now, for those who don’t know anything about Tennessee, let me start by saying you aren’t missing much. There’s mountains, beer, smelly redneck people who are practically a culture of their own, John Deere, and some more beer. Towards what you would call the “inner city” of my town, though it’s not particularly big, there reside the few normal people like myself.
So, I work at this Food Lion, right? Well, it’s on the outskirts sort of. Not really in town, but not really on the mountain either. (It’s ironically next to my old high school, which is actually in a mountain valley. lol.) Well, the kids in this area are completely fascinated by anything with more interest than a blade of grass. When I was in school, the weaboos and whatnot strayed and stayed at MTAC. I knew of a few friends who had obsessions, but I’ve never had that joy of running into an actual weaboo myself. Until a few hours ago.
I enjoy anime. When I was younger, I was raised on shows like Tenchi, Sailor Moon, Outlaw Star, and Cowboy Bebop. You know, what could be considered classics are far as popularity and whatnot. I watch it on my own, and I don’t really associate too hard with people who like it, even my friends. I just enjoy it more by myself. I prefer certain genres, while they like things like Hetalia and whatnot. That’s just not my thing. I’ll stick to some Trigun, thanks. My obsession, however, comes not from anime, but from KPop.
Truth be told, I just really like asian music as a whole. Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, and whatever else you throw at me. I get so bored with the same shit being produced in the states, and there’s always something cool or different about the music produced overseas. (And i’m not just talking about the language difference either, lol.)
There’s a popular group called SHINee, and they have these pictures (I’m not sure where they’re from as I’m not a huge fan of them, and I don’t stan them) of them in these animal pajamas. The main vocalist, Jonghyun, wore these cute tiger pj’s. I’m incredibly familiar with them because I just recently got a pair for my younger sister, who adores the group, especially Jonghyun. (Oh, the days of fangirling when you’re young lol)
So, I’m at work. These two girls walk in, one of which was wearing a pair of Jjong’s tiger PJs. As I said, I’m incredibly familiar with these. I don’t know where they’re from, but the tiger set is a set i’ve seen consistantly for the last week or so. lol. So, they get in my check out line, and the two girls are talking. There’s a bit of a putrid smell lingering in the air, but I blow it off figuring it was one of the other customers. As I said, people in this area apparently aren’t familiar with personal hygiene. So, I casually comment. ”Hey, nice pjs. I bought some for my sister. Are you a Shawol, too?” (Shawol is SHINee’s fanclub.)
This girl looks at me with the most incredulous face. The other girl just rolls her eyes and walks away. I’m sitting there holding a box of soap (irony at its best), trying to figure out what the hell I said wrong. She looks at me and goes, ”Excuse me. I do not associate with that Korean stuff. These pajamas are from Hetalia. Except I really like tigers, so I found these.”
So I said, ”Oh, well I know they’re the ones Jonghyun has from SHINee. That’s why I commented. Er, sorry about the mixup.” Mind you, I’m being polite. I don’t like nasty teenagers with nasty attitudes.
I continue scanning their items, and she continues to give me the death glare. Then, and of all things she could say, she goes, ”You know, Korean’s make the Japanese look bad. Only Japanese can cosplay and do it right. One day, when I’m in Japan writing manga, I’m going to make sure Korean’s don’t like it. In fact, I’ll make fun of them.. What’s my fucking total?”
Needless to say, I was angry. Instead of checking them out, I literally walked away. Left everything as it was, and walked away.
I don’t care if your a fan of anime, Kpop, or anything related to the Asian culture. Have respect. Also, don’t be a fucking idiot. Thanks!
