July 15, 2007

Dirty Gaijin

Filed under: Engrish — gaijzilla @ 4:54 pm

Oh man.  I’m doing it again.  My scavenger instincts are flaring up.  I can’t resist.  Today I  went through somebody’s garbage.  I know my neighbors would be absolutely horrified, but they’re probably horrified by me already.  I should say in my defense, it wasn’t just random trash.  Since trash bags are required to be clear, I could see that it contained clothing and some other moving-out type garbage and not rotting vegetables or anything.

Most of it is sadly and very obviously too small for me.  I didn’t even bother to try on the brown sparkly tube top that said “EARTH” in big gold letters and rhinestones.  But a few items are nearly my size and very decent finds.

1.  A white T-shirt with collar, rhinestone buttons going half way down in the shirt.  In big gold letters:

FIND      RIZE
ASK      SUN
LOVE    GLAD
CONTINUE

2.  A purposely threadbare longsleeved white shirt.  The brand is called “BLOW.”  There are rhinestone buttons on the shirt cuffs.  In silver sparkly letters:

        CZARINA
RIFIND SWEET, LIGHT
BROWN, HARD
TASTE, YOU
AS IF IN A
DREAM

Now, I think both these shirts are hilarious.  But I’m a little nervous about wearing them around where my neighbors can see.   Hanging them outside apartment window to dry after washing is completely out of the question.