Conversational Threads

Who will run in the ekiden? It's only 1 km and they need 1 or 2 more people... Everyone is sick, or injured, or busy... What are you doing for Christmas? Going home? Really? When? Oh no! The tournament is on Dec. 18th, you're going to miss it... Who can we get? Let's ask the doctor and his wife. But, she looks like she'll break! She can drink you know, wanders round Asahi-machi, running up a tab. Really, but she looks like a skeleton, what the hell can she drink?? Well, invite them both to play anyways... Mr. Yamao has silk pyjamas. No way! Yes, he got them from his mother when his father died. He must have brought them back from somewhere. Anyways, Mr. Yamao would wear them to bed, but in the morning when he had to use the bathroom (outhouse) he would change into regular pyjamas so the neighbours wouldn't see his silky luxury. I have a silk robe, I love it... Daisuke wakes up early every morning. He is turning into an old man, just like his grandfather. He acts like him -- even getting angry in the same way, suddenly yelling out about what makes him angry. Yuka is nothing like that; she's more like her mom. Takes forever to get her up in the morning. Remember the time when I called you at 9:30 and woke you up? You were supposed to catch a plane to Tokyo at 10am. And I made it! Yeah, can you believe it? Yuki was on time...