Whenever we go to Disney Land we always look forward to one thing in particular. Where as most children our age enjoy the rides and the characters, there's nothing we love more than to queue up for hours on end, listening to whining children complain that they're "hungry", or that they "need the toilet", or that we're "touching them", just for a (usually less than) thirty second mind numbingly boring experience.
Imagine our joy when we discovered we could re-live the adventure just down the road, in the most child friendly place in Tokyo; Akihabara.
This is what the back of a mans head looks like at 5am - if you've only had three hours sleep and haven't turned macro mode off on your camera. The lack of sun also means lack of heat, which leads to lack of feeling in your hands, which leads to excellent masturbation.
Just as we were about to settle down for the three hour wait ahead of us, out of nowhere a fucking McDonald's lorry turns up and causes all kinds of excitement. It made a delivery, then drove off, quick as a flash. Later it turned out that this would be the most interesting part of the morning.
As the day became lighter, these two children found it amusing to play with their Crystal White iPod, so as to annoy everyone around them. We grinned knowingly as we reached into our pockets and fingered the delicate ten-thousand yen bank notes. Warm fleshy bank notes.
As we neared the store entrance the queue divided in two, one for "Enamel Navy" and one for "Ice Blue". We were going to make a joke here in which we'd say "you know, in the space of two weeks we've seen more lines than Pete Doherty", but we decided not to.
This man entertained the crowds by beat-boxing non-stop for five hours.
Across the street we noticed a large line of people. Taking the large risk to assume that this was also for DS Lites, we did some clever maths and worked out that buying and selling TWO units would equal at least one and a half times the original profit.
Thus having queued up non-stop for a whole morning we finally bought this...
And this...
And are already knee deep in bags of cocaine and whores.
2 comments:
Damn you Yodobashi Akiba for making me stand 2.5 hours in the cold for nothing!
Hey, I recognise that ice blue beauty...
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