Today was the Doll Festival.

[snarp]

Me: So after today is that song (I don't know how to say "going to be taken out of rotation all the PA systems") going to go away?

Manager: "Go away?" You mean the "let's put out dolls" song? You don't like it?

Me: It's playing everywhere! All the time! And it's creepy!

Manager: It's not creepy! It's the little girls' song!

Me: It sounds like (I don't know how to say "haunted house theme music") ghosts are going to come out.

Manager: "It sounds like ghosts are going to come out..." *laughs at my 5-year-old-ish phrasing for several minutes*

I'm glad my imperfect Japanese affords people some amusement.

Also, for a second Doll Festival-themed products made me think Marshmallow Peeps had finally infiltrated Japan:



Obviously I had to buy the baby chick and see what it was made of. The answer is "sweet bean paste," also known as "my one true love." It was good!

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Heeheehee!!!

The song is kind of cute, though I'm kind of imagining it now as done by Kokushoku Sumire (Youtube link), in which case it would definitely sound like an お化け屋敷のテーマ音楽. (Well, I dunno, that's the best I could do using http://www.alc.co.jp/ :P)

[snarp]

The song kinda loses its charm after the million-billionth time the grocery store plays it. And I mostly only go to the grocery store late in the evening after work, when the store is empty but except for a few exhausted, zombielike people are wandering vaguely around in the aisles staring blankly at discounted pickled things. It adds to the general atmosphere.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Uh, yeah, I can only imagine hearing it Over and Over and Over, particularly in that kind of setting. D: