Looking For Love

Myth-demeanour or truth?

According to the person who told me this way back in my second year of teaching English in Japan's lush Ohtawara (the name translates into Big-Rice Field-Field), the following short story actually happened. The person who told me wasn't a tall-tale teller like some people, so I'm treating it as the truth... unless someone can show me that it's a rural legend. There's nothing urbane about this blog.

At a unnamed junior high school in an unnamed prefecture (province), an AET (assistant English teacher... IE, a gaijin/foreigner) was asked to patrol the school grounds to make sure the students are kept in line.

He (not a non-descriptive gender) apparently caught a young teen-aged boy and girl in THE act. If you know what I mean. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

When he told them to stop, the boy pointed to his crotch and said: "It sa okay... pro-tect-shun."

Needless to say, the AET walked away and the two amorous teenagers continued to dilly-dally.

After all, the boy said it in English.

Somewhere wondering why I never had to patrol the grounds,
Andrew Joseph
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