Kaeru-san Lakeside (2)
Checking the bunch of the direct mails, Kaeru-san found a cherry-color envelope.
"Spring Fair of Mashiya Electric Shop! A special information only for Kaeru-san-san !"
Kaeru-san-san. Kaeru-san remembered that he had written "Kaeru-san" on the customer' s sheet. Anyway, it was no matter. The matter was the phrase "Get free Kaeru Clock at the shop !" If the nasty alarm clock in the Kaeru-san' s room was replaced to the Kaeru Clock, the morning would be the morning, not the afternoon, not the evening.
Mashiya Electric Shop was faced to the Hell Road, and it has big parking area on the 1st floor. The place was for the car users, but Kaeru-san went by himself because he was a kaeru. Crossing the Hell Crossroad, passed by Restaurant Chiwa, Hopeless Glasses Shop and the belt of the reproductive shoots of the field horsetail, went up the stairs, and now Kaeru-san was at the Spring Fair !
At the entrance a lot of the paper bags were placed, and Kaeru-san found the purple huroshiki inside. Kaeru-san put the DM to the clerk. "Excuse me, but the Kaeru Clock ran out of stock. Instead you will get this small gift." "No problem, I will get it later." Kaeru-san put on an unconcerned air and went into the shop.
The front of the floor were Karaoke systems, but it seemed no good because the frequency properties was not for the ear of frog. Kaeru-san went to the TV area. the Mayer of frogs was on the 32 inch monitor. The mayer was much bigger than Kaeru-san. Kaeru-san wondered how he was big. Kaeru-san began to measure the size of the mayor with his palm. He came to measure the half of the mayor, when the clerk said "Excuse me sir, but please don' t touch to the monitor with your palm." The clerk had a magic cloth in his hand. Kaeru-san wiped the sucker print with his finger and went to the wash machine area.
Kaeru-san put the spin drier on, and opened the cover to look inside. The drier stopped. How it stops ? Kaeru-san tried again carefully. Zot, zot. The strange sound came and it stopped again. Next time, he opened the cover very slightly. It kept spinning. Maybe there is a switch around the cover. He put his arm into the machine, and the drum pulled his whole body inside. No way ! it will dry up the body. If the body is dried up, the famous gama oil will be also dried up. The body will be the same as the body of the small lizard on the Hell Road run over by the car...
Kaeru-san waked up and found himself lying on the bed in the secret room of Mashiya Electric Shop. "We' re very sorry for your accident. This is a token of our sympathy for you." Kaeru-san shaked the package. It sounds kerokero. He got the Kaeru Clock.
Notes
- kaeru
- frog
- Kaeru-san-san
- "san" is a courtesy (but casual) title for man and woman in Japanese.
- Kaeru-san-san sounds like "Mr. Mr. Kaeru".
- huroshiki
- A thin cloth to pack everything.
- It often contains a big surprise (but don' t expect too much).
- gama oil
- The oil from the skin of the frog. Japanese traditional medicine.
- kero, kerokero
- The onomatopoeia of the vocalization of the small Japanese rain frog.
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