Anyone who knows me well realizes that I have a phobia of bugs of most sorts. There I said it. If I have a major pet peeve in Japan, it's that the bugs here are just freaky in nature. You either have these oversized suckers or ultra speedy things. I just decimated a spider that was able to easily hop several inches across even though it was just a tiny thing (compared to the roach in my apartment a few weeks ago). The summer has to be the worst time of the year though. You get these giant cockroaches, the loud, fat cicada, these horrific green beetle-like things, and even dragonflies that buzz around in a very annoying fashion. I live on the second floor and in my backyard, there's an abundance of foliage. I kept thinking if the friggin' owner would just cut this useless jungle, maybe it would solve some of these problems. Also, if the stupid Midtown didn't put a friggin' pond that attracted all types of unwanted attention maybe we wouldn't have some of these freaks of nature.
As I type this in anger, I keep seeing some stupid oyaji smiling at his garden, chuckling at some oversized roach prancing on his foot and a pigeon taking a shit on his cap since the guy just fed the thing a bunch of moldy bread crumbs. For a polluted, filth soaked city, Tokyo has this bizarre mixture of the natural, which to me ends up just sucking and turning the landscape into a bigger shithole.
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