Japanese Racism

Ho. Ly. Crap.

So, my chair broke. I'm not sure how these things happen, but they do. It's been sort of busted since the beginning of the year, but it was still useable so I dind't make a big fuss about it. It kinda just...snapped today, so I brought it and a friend who speaks better Japanese than I do up to the security office to trade it in for a better one.

Now, I know that at the beginning of the year I put that the chair was fine (because I didn't, you know, meticulously examine everything in my room and annotate every wrong feature. Like most people.) so I was fully prepared to go in and just fill out the I need a new chair report and trade it in for a new one. I was aware that I'd most likely be charged for this chair, but whatever. I just want something to sit on.

But when I got to the details it's all... I'm not sure what to write. It just sort of broke. So I left it blank. And the guard pestered me to explain how it broke, so I tried to say that when I came back to my room it was broken, so I'm not sure what happened. I guess I did that wrong or something cause he kept questioning me. I tried saying (and my friend tried explaining) that it was a little broken from the beginning of the year and it must have just given out.

They called me a liar.

Like... flat out. I heard them say the word liar. In Japanese granted but I heard it.

I said that I don't care if I have to pay for it or whatever, I just want a new chair. So they got me one and told me to test it out and leave, and then began muttering stuff in Japanese about how I was a liar and I was just trying to trick them into a free chair.

What.

The.

Hell.

It's probably my worse experience since coming to this country. And to top it all off, the chair they gave me is ALSO broken. If I raise it any higher than halfway it becomes deatched and falls apart. Really though, I don't even care anymore. I'm going to Beppu and seeing if I can get a cheap chair or a stool or something and just keep this in the closet for the rest of the year. Freakin ridiculous.