Posted by CP on 7/30/2001, 11:46 am Hi (name), Sorry I didn't get your message about you and (name) maybe being able to meet up with us until last night. Anyway, it was a little difficult squeezing even just three of us into some places for sitting and watching the women smoke; with five it may have been impossible to get a table at a few places. And even if we could have, not everyone would have had a good seat, if you follow me. It seemed like people were out in full force Saturday, I don't really know why but I've noticed that a lot of people from out of town are in the city where I live, so maybe it is a peak tourist season or something. I would imagine on a regular weekend it might be more feasible for five or six of us to get tables in places, but then you still have a hard time talking to everyone, and since we don't get the chance to meet that often (at least I don't; you are lucky to have (name) in your vicinity), you want to hear everything that everyone has to say! Well, getting to your original question, the "meeting" went outstanding, as you probably know from meeting PH before. He and I seem pretty similar in our tastes for smoking women. Jim (SG) also, but I would say the biggest difference is that PH and I prefer the longer cigarettes and Jim likes corks and other strong kingsize cigarettes the best. Maybe? (Jim, correct me if I'm wrong.) I would have to ask him to make sure, but we all agreed on many of the women we were watching Saturday. All three of us seem to have a fairly substantial sub-fetish for cigars, also. I've been in Hiroshima several times before, and spent many an hour just going from place to place for sightings, but let me tell you, Saturday was the best by far. It was right up there with the best I've seen in Osaka or Tokyo in one day. We started the day off at an Italian restaurant I had been to once before. I knew it was popular with the 20s crowd, but didn't know how it would be during the day, if there would be any smokers, etc. I knew the food would be decent, and I figured we wouldn't be eating anything substantial the rest of the day so we'd better fill our tanks at the beginning. So we get there, and luckily for PH and I, Jim smokes so we could ask for the smoking section with impunity LOL. (Yes, they had a smoking section. It's getting more and more common in Japan, but often the smoking sections are right next to the non-smoking, and sometimes the best seats for watching are actually in non-smoking.) It seemed like it took a while for us three to sit down; it was a table for four and there definitely seemed to be a good side (with two chairs) and a bad side. I think PH was the first to sit down, on the bad side believe it or not. Maybe respect for his elders? ;-). Well, I was only too happy to sit on the good side, as was Jim. Actually, PH is in a bigger city than me, so he probably gets more good sightings on a daily basis than I do, so I appreciated his gesture very much. And Jim was only visiting Japan for a few days, so I really wanted him to have the best chance possible for sightings. He had mentioned that the night before, in Osaka, he had seen nothing. Come to find out he had stayed around the shinkansen stop there, where he also checked into a hotel. If any of you are coming to Osaka for the first time and don't know it, you should be warned that the shinkansen station in Osaka is not the main station and in fact there is very little to do around the shinkansen station, which is called Shin-Osaka. ("Shin" means new.) So if you go to Osaka, head directly for Umeda and get a room there. It is the city center, and has great sightings places in it's own right, but you can branch out by subway to Namba, America-mura, and other places with equally great sightings opportunities. Okay, back to Hiroshima, in the Italian restaurant. Although I had what should have been a good seat, the two smokers that I recall the best I didn't have a good view of. One was in front of me, and I wasn't blocked by PH because he was cattycorner to me. But the girl's friend, whose back was to me, blocked my view, so about all I got to see was the smoke rising above her table. And the other girl, who Jim absolutely fell in love with, was directly behind PH in my line of sight, so I didn't see much of her either. Maybe Jim can give you some details about how one or both of them smoked. I actually didn't mind not being able to see that much because, as I told those two guys, being able to talk about the smoking fetish, videos, etc. was a chance I don't get very much. Oh, the talking we did. As you might imagine, with these kinds of meetings you don't just start talking about "it" right away. Part of that is you are actually cyberfriends so you have some other things to talk about, and with Saturday's meeting in particular, with Jim a long way from his "home" in England on a one-month or so long vacation through Asia, we had many other things to talk about. But I think it was Jim who first broached the topic of "it". After that, there was no going back to "How's the weather?"!!! I had wondered if I should caution both guys about speaking too loudly, because one thing I've learned from living in Japan for six years is that you would be surprised how many people are actually quite good at English. Sometimes the people you would expect the least. I thought maybe we should limit using the smoke word especially, because it is understood by most Japanese regardless of their English ability, and I thought if they heard that word they might worry that their smoke was bothering us or something. But let me tell you, we must have used the smoke word in that first restaurant alone hundreds of times. After a while I kind of figured what the heck, I don't live here, PH doesn't live here, let's let our hair down and really enjoy talking about what we like without worrying if the person sitting at the next table is an English teacher or something. (At our last "stop", we even ended up talking about it in front of three white foreigners who were pretty obviously English teachers and who were definitely speaking English!) Okay, that was the first stop. Sorry I don't have many details, but like I said I couldn't see much. Hopefully Jim will add something. But anyway, at least you have an idea how our "mini-convention" started!
I got an email from a friend in the Tokyo area saying he and another guy were interested in coming down for the "convention" in Hiroshima. Unfortunately, I didn't see it until last night, but as I explained to him and will paste below, five might have been a crowd anyway considering how many people were out Saturday. As I started to reply to him about how things went Saturday, I realized I would end up posting here about it anyway, so here I am! Okay, first I'll paste the beginning of my email to him.
Hey, you weren't totally serious when you said, "I was just wondering how the meeting went", were you? Well, I guess it was a meeting of kinds, but we didn't rent a room in a public building, call the meeting to order, go through old business, new business, elect officers, etc. LOL.
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