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Ten-yen beer and a trip to the restroom

A cheap beer offer brought a comedian and his friends together for an evening he remembers vividly.

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Comedian Fukuda from U-Ji Koji (Ｕ字工事の福田) recalls a night of cheap beer and an awkward trip to the restroom.

That evening at the restaurant

A grill restaurant near me once had a special: beer for ten yen a glass. Being broke, I got everyone together: “Let’s go drinking.” I had seven or eight glasses in about an hour and a half.

Naturally, I needed the restroom. I was standing there peeing, looking up and thinking, What a deal. All this beer for so little.

Then I thought, Hang on. Why does it feel warm?

I looked down. My penis was stuck flat against my thigh, and my pants were soaking up all the pee.

Oh, no!

If I went back like this, everyone would know… What was I going to do?

I was panicking when a saying popped into my head: the place to hide a leaf is in a forest.

So, to hide the wet pants, I splashed water over myself from the head down until I was soaked all over. Then I went back to the table.

“Ahh! That’s refreshing!”

Nobody noticed a thing.

Two illustrated figures beside a gray microphone: one with spiky brown hair and a patterned blue shirt, the other with short dark hair, a white shirt and red tie, against white and bright green.

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