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Unfortunately, I have managed to miss every earthquake I have been in, except for the first.
I was in Nagoya Japan on a school trip in 2001 sitting in my
host mother’s lounge room doing a cultural exchange for a few days, but only
succeeding in communicating in the international language of over acting mime.
All of a sudden the room, and I assume the whole house, started to shake, and
there was a loud roar coming from outside. I assumed it was a low flying plane or something and did not think much about it. The host mum
casually reached for the electronic dictionary, and started typing in a word. She found what she was looking for, handed me the dictionary and
pointed to a word.
“HOLY SHIT, IT’S A FUCKING EARTHQUAKE!”
I crawled backwards over the back of the lounge like a crab
trying the fish vindaloo for the first time screaming to the door; trying to
remember anything about earthquakes survival I had seen in movies. The host mum
was laughing her head off – so much for polite society.
When I had calmed down, the host Mum reached for her electronic dictionary and typed in a phrase. "Did the earth move for you?" she asked and had another giggle.
When I had calmed down, the host Mum reached for her electronic dictionary and typed in a phrase. "Did the earth move for you?" she asked and had another giggle.
On the news later in the evening, I had no idea what they
were saying, but they had a chart over the map of Japan showing the earthquake
being 4 point something on the crap-your-dacks scale. I would have sworn that
the aftershocks in my pants were higher.
The Japanese earthquake and tsunami earlier this year was a
tragedy, and certainly not funny, but I would love to think that there is someone out there, out on the fringes of the earthquake, who timed
their release at the precise moment the Earth did. He would be a hero.
Have you ever reached orgasm during an earthquake? If not, do you have a favourite earthquake moment?
Your reaction was priceless in Japan. At least it wasn't Godzilla.
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