Thursday, October 18, 2007

Oh Yukio! Or things to consider when staying in a hostel

Good idea to confine your things to a corner of the room.  Bad idea to put your dirty laundry in various cabinets around the dorm.

Good idea to clean the dishes after you use them, not before.  Especially if you burned the rice.

You really don't need to buy vodka for yourself, there will be plenty left around from previous guests.

Good idea say hello to your roommates.  Or at least look at them and smile.

If you are going to eat cereal out of the common bowl use the ladle.  Not your hands.

Slurping is gross.

You can ask a stranger to "pass the bread" or to point.  You don't have to get up and walk around the table to avoid them.

Packing your things in 50 plastic bags is weird.  It is also weird to rustle with them until midnight and wake up to do it again in the morning.

We know it doesn't take two and a half hours to cook rice.  We know you are avoiding us. 

Even if you think everyone in the room is asleep... don't walk around in your briefs.

Get a bit of a mental map of the room so you don't slam into the other guests beds at top speed in the dark.

If you do trip on someone's stuff, it isn't necessary to hold your wound for ten minutes.  You don't need sound effects.  Get over it.

Taking a nap in the morning when you've kept your roommates up most of the night with your rustling of plastic bags will invite contempt.

If you are a competent member of Japan's PSIA you fooled us.  We think you're borderline autistic. 

2 comments:

Assistant Village Idiot said...

One person?!

Kate said...

Except for the vodka comment... that was just to add to the atmosphere.