Pachinko

I met Cecil the other night and she showed up with blond hair extensions down to her stomach. I took her to dinner and on the way back to my place we passed a dark street where I decided to push her up against the wall and unbutton her short shorts and reach in. She was protesting a lot, so I told her not to worry because, "Its Monday....."

........Which made her burst out laughing so hard she could hardly stand up while saying, "kankeinai." (irrelevant) repetitively. Funny moment. But I ended up giving her a solid handjob which she was pissed off about at the time, but happy about later.

Random acts of public sex: its all about embracing the moment and seeing where opportunity takes you.

The next day when we were walking around and I asked her about pachinko, the Japanese style of gambling with a type of slot machine. She told me she used to work at one and used to play slot machines but stopped doing it after guys that she dated told her to stop.

-On Pachinko-
I heard, and don't quote me on this, but when Japan wanted to join the united nations there were certain laws that had to be passed. Amongst other laws, two things they begrudgingly had to make illegal were; prostitution and gambling. So although these are illegal in Japan, they aren't so strongly enforced because the country still considers some of these things as part of their culture, and tends to turn the blind eye to some extent. This part of the culture is called the 'water trade' or 'mizushobai'. Long ago, certain organized groups of men would sail down the rivers of Japan and offer to sell certain entertainments that wouldn't normally be available everyday in the remote villages, hence the term 'water'. Things like gambling, prostitution, alcohol etc. are included in this trade. Today, work that is centered around evening work, including bars and such, is still called the water trade.

Anyway, the system for pachinko is that when you win, you win small silver balls. You can trade these balls for prizes such as toys, cool cigarette lighters, etc. Most people trade them for a kind of gold chip. They then take these gold chips to a separate vendor and sell them for cash, essentially turning their winnings to cash. This separate vendor is often located next to a pachinko parlor and owned by the same people. The amount of money circulated is tremendous. I might have written about a Japanese ex-band member who lost a ton of cash through pachinko. I think I also once wrote about the girlfriend who was loaded as all hell because her father owned one of these buildings. These people are working above the law but dance that fine line and skirt the border of what is legal by creating a convenient loop-hole where what they are doing is offering prizes as opposed to cash, but essentially, it ends up as cash so.....whatever. Incidentally, that girl's father never played pachinko once in his life despite owning his own building full of it. You'd think you would test the product once, right?

Homo.

Well I can understand his reasoning despite hating on his xenophobic yakuza ass. Gambling is lame. And I think the need for Japan to hold onto this kind 'culture' is about as lame as holding onto the whaling culture. Seriously. Whale meat is SHIT! Give it up already. Lame as all hell.

I asked Cecil if she would show me how to play pachinko cause I had never done it, but since I'm a total cheapskate, I'd rather just go to the game center and play the fake style called 'Medal'. Its the same as pachinko but costs a fraction of the price and there are no prizes. So, why play I hear you ask? Why play any game I guess...

Anyway, we get there and she is PSYCHED, which kinda weirds me out (not as much as seeing her with no make up though~ another story) and she asks me about 50 frickin times which machine are we gonna play. It all looks the same to me.



I find a machine, I lose my money instantly, she gets 'fever' (kinda like jackpot- high odds at getting high return) and ends up with a ton of 'medal' (tokens). From there we take the tokens and play some other high tech looking game with flashy lights and loud buzzers. I hit the jackpot, get a ton of coins, and get a little pumped, lolz, and we end up playing it for almost 45 minutes. In total it cost 200yen. I got pretty sick of it at that stage and was looking forward to losing the coins, going home, drinking beer, pouring lotion on her hard gyaru body and getting ero- which I did. Yay.

My thoughts on pachinko =

LAME!

Interesting Cecil facts
-Hates it when I say anything in English apart from "Fuck yeah."
-Wants me to go to a tanning salon with her
-Doesn't think she is gyaru
- Once modeled for a catalog that ended up in Australia
-Doesn't smoke