It was the best of times

[zenkatsuo]

Last night, on my evening walk, I had the incredible luck of running into Tsunoda, Kagetani and my beloved section chief as they were leaving work at some ungodly late hour. They were sweet enough to ask whether I'd had dinner yet, and to invite me to eat with them when I said no. We were right at the door to a restaurant, when section chief had a call from the guys from a different section, inviting us to a bar with them instead. Tsunoda was pretty bummed about it. The guys had had really good head start, and were pretty drunk already, but everyone was in good spirits and nobody questioned why I was there. I drank quite a bit of shochu, and section chief made sure that I ate as well. When we left the bar I walked with them to the station, he kept tapping me on the shoulder and telling me I didn't have to take care of a bunch of drunkards and could just go home since I lived in the opposite direction.

Today both Tsunoda and section chief apologized to me for the guys having been so drunk.