Sato tested what his landlord would do with an old T-shirt
Sato of Dokidoki Camp recalls a low-rent apartment, a helpful landlord, and a small experiment with a red T-shirt.
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Sato (佐藤) of the Japanese comedy duo Dokidoki Camp (どきどきキャンプ) remembers an apartment where he lived when money was tight.
Does he wear anything?
When I didn't have much money, I lived in an apartment with a shared entrance and toilet, no bath, and rent of 20,000 yen. Six of us lived there. If we gathered the trash in one place, the older landlord next door would take it out. It was a pretty homey arrangement.
One day I threw away a big pile of clothes—jeans, T-shirts, all sorts of things. The following week, when I went to pay rent, the landlord was wearing one of the T-shirts I'd thrown out. I wondered: would he wear anything?
I had a red Neko Hiroshi T-shirt in size small, the cutest one I owned, with ‘Neko Damashii’ (猫だましい) printed on it. I threw that away too, just to see what would happen.
The next time I went to pay rent, the landlord wasn't wearing it. ‘Oh, he does pick and choose,’ I thought.
About two months later, a whole procession of cars arrived with the landlord's relatives. Among them was a girl who looked about second-grade age. She was wearing the red ‘Neko Damashii’ T-shirt.
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