Real English Fourteen-Roll the dice!
Sometimes you have to roll the dice!
I talked to Makoto about this die the other day.
The following is our conversation.
Glenn: Where did you get that die?
Makoto: I got it at an exhibition which was held in a museum in Kanazawa Prefecture a few years back.
Glenn: How much was it?
Makoto: I forget exactly, but around 500 yen.
Glenn: Not bad. It's pretty cool! Did they have any other die with a theme?
Makoto: Yeah, a bunch.
Glenn: Like what?
Makoto: Like "Drink-Don't drink", "Work out-Don't work out", "Eat in-Eat out", "Night out with Wife-Night out with Friend"!
Glenn: Really?!
Makoto: Yeah, about every one except the last one.
Glenn: I thought so. Anyway, do you really use it?
Makoto: You bet!
Glenn: When?
Makoto: Sometimes, after coming home late after drinking with my buddies, which is often, and I can't decide whether or not to have a late snack, I let it fly. If my wife was awake, she would lead me in the right direction like she always does and just say "What are you crazy! It is 2am! Just go to sleep already!!" But like the rest of the world, she is usually sleeping in the wee hours of the night so I let the die decide for me.
Glenn: That's an easy way out, but also actually a pretty intelligent way to decide. Do you always "listen" to the die?
Makoto: Yes, I do. The die has the final word! There are no "second rolls"!!
Glenn: I want one so bad!!! It seems so easy and you don't even have to think! I don't like to think late at night either. Instead of a die, I use a coin sometimes, like a quarter or nickel, and flip the coin to decide whether to do something or not.
Makoto: Birds of a feather flock together!
Glenn: Not exactly, but something like that!
2 comments:
Hi Glenn,
Politicians or Dectators should decide to win or lose wars with dice, I think.
r@tokyo.
Oops, dictators.
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