Today....

...I saw the funniest thing I may have ever seen.

There is a little playground behind Geos, just a swingset and a couple of benches really, that we can see from the back window at school. It is just off the main street to the train station and the main street with AlPlaza, the main department store in Tsuruga. So the area is fairly well traversed, but rarely do I see kids playing on that swingset. Once in a while on Saturdays, but during the week, not too much. My guess is that will change at the end of July when the kids get a summer vacation.

Anyway, today as I was throwing away my trash (delicious ham salad for the non-nutritious win) I looked out the back window to see four kids swinging on the swingset. One of which was completely and entirely naked. He must have been three or four and he was standing on the swing just butt-assed naked. Not a care in the world.


By the time I finished looking like this ^ and had returned from telling Yuko and Kaori about the funniest thing of all time, apparently the little nudist had gotten bored of swinging and was now riding around on his tricycle, still naked as a jay bird. All of his friends were fully clothed and weren't acting like this was at all unusual. In the trouser-less toddler's defense, it was very hot today, and a birthday suit is much more comfortable than the suit I had to wear.

Yes, seeing a naked two year old was the highlight of my day. And the more I type, the more I expect to hear screeching tires outside of my apartment followed by fifty Japanese police officers bursting through my door.