Bazooka Blasts at Breakfast

Yeah, it’s a lame title for a blog post, but it’s true.

Every morning this week I’ve been eating breakfast and around 8:00, these crazy noises shake my little house. I know my house is a little old, so I figured it was my neighbors throwing stuff off their roof or a giant truck rumbling down the street.

But my neighbors are like 80 years old and definitely can’t throw stuff off their roof. And even if they did, it’s like an 8 foot fall into soil. It would not shake my house.

Also, my house is a good 15 feet away from the street. And it’s elevated on a dirt hill which would dampen the truck rumbling. Giant trucks in Japan are also…tiny. It would not shake my house.

I went to work this morning and the crazy noises were happening at work. The windows kept shaking. It sounded like someone was slamming file cabinet drawers. Giant file cabinet drawers against the side of the office building. I thought maybe it was the buses parked behind the building, but I looked and the buses were all parked and no one was around. Strange. But no one else seemed phased by the giant file cabinet drawer slamming, so I wasn’t going to bring it up.

My boss took me for a drive and I asked him in the car what the crazy sounds were (I deemed it a seemingly stupid question and not worthy to be asked in front of all my coworkers).

“Oh…Loud noise in morning? Sometime army use bazooka in morning for summertime. It’s okay. You safe.”

So now I know (and you know) that I have bazooka blasts at breakfast. But, according to my boss, I am safe.