A Beautiful Girl I Met at the Park Who Wanted to Be an Idol Went Viral and Became One, but When I Distanced Myself From Her, Her Expression Clouded Over

Source https://kakuyomu.jp/works/2912051600327232539 You know those glowing sticks that the ground staff use to guide planes at the airport? Apparently, they’re called marshalling wands. The captain relies solely on the movements of those two glowing sticks to land that massive hunk of metal precisely on the runway. If the person waving those wands had a hopeless … Read more

Source https://kakuyomu.jp/works/2912051600327232539 When you buy a 500-yen plastic umbrella, you don’t really think of it as “your own.” It’s part of the sharing economy—a temporary shelter from the rain—and is destined to be taken by someone else from a convenience store umbrella stand sooner or later. But when it comes to a 30,000-yen luxury umbrella, … Read more

Source https://kakuyomu.jp/works/2912051600327232539 Celebrities’ attempts at disguise are fundamentally flawed. A black hat pulled low over the eyes, a black mask covering more than half the face. It’s like walking around flashing a sign to everyone around you that says, “I’m hiding here.” If you really want to blend into the cityscape, you should carry a … Read more

Source https://kakuyomu.jp/works/2912051600327232539 There’s an 80% chance that updating an app will make the user interface worse. People call it “optimization” to justify it to themselves, but from the perspective of those who’ve grown accustomed to the button layout, it’s nothing more than a violation of their territory. It was 2:00 a.m. I was sitting on … Read more

Source https://kakuyomu.jp/works/2912051600327232539 Whoever first designed the heart symbol must never have seen a real heart muscle. It’s far too perfectly symmetrical. A real heart is just a bloody, lump of muscle, thick and misshapen, with the left ventricle bulging out. I think using that beautiful symbol to convey affection is a grave betrayal of medicine. … Read more

Source https://kakuyomu.jp/works/2912051600327232539 The front-facing camera on a smartphone is a product of self-love and compromise. It pretends to be a mirror, flipping the world to suit the subject’s convenience and expertly concealing any flaws. It was 2:30 in the morning. I was sitting on a bench, pondering the ethics of such imaging devices. “…Hey, when … Read more

Source https://kakuyomu.jp/works/2912051600327232539 It seems moths flocking to streetlights aren’t actually drawn to the light itself. Apparently, it’s simply that their instinct to fly while maintaining a certain angle to the moonlight is being disrupted by the intense artificial light right in front of them. They just want to fly straight, but because they’re so determined … Read more

Source https://kakuyomu.jp/works/2912051600327232539 When drinking canned corn chowder, how do you rescue the last three kernels of corn? That is an unsolved problem for humanity. Should you shake it, tap it, or just give up and leave it to the laws of nature? It was 2 a.m. in the park. Sitting on the only bench illuminated … Read more