Friday October 31
16:16
The Double Insult
We’re sitting on a bench in a bar in Tokyo.
She reaches over and prods my belly.
“Too fat?” I ask.
“No,” she says, “it’s normal for a man your age.”
Fat and old. Every man’s dream.
She might just be getting her own back: an hour before I had taken her to a chemist and told her she needed to buy deodourant. Well, how else do you say it?
Say it straight.