by axxxm
Smile Battle
5/October/2024 in Kraków
Friday. Nonsense
In my hotel reception
Waiting for
a young good-looking Polish boy staff
Young female hotel resident passed
Beautiful woman
Yet
her face was frown
These days
I feel I'm becoming narrow-minded
These days
just like an ex-smoker can't tolerate other smokers after he quit,
I feel some difficulty in accepting this kind of "lack of self-consciousness" & "lack of narcissism"
I wondered how much her frown face made her unattractive
And remembering Mishima's word
"........an optimistic face; it must be manufactured. This is politeness to the world."
Young good-looking Polish boy staff came
A brief chat, regarding some un-important matters about my stay
He didn't show a smile
It reminded me of that slight frustration from a frowning face girl
In order to dissolve this sticky feeling,
I gave him an extra overly smile
in order to "force him to smile"
It is very strange that I, a customer, show more friendly attitude than a hotel worker
Even if he found my smile weird,
then he justified himself
as in
".........well, smiling is not a culture here, but he is OBVIOUSLY not from here. Maybe, in his country, in some far east exotic island, this must be normal"
Or
even this young handsome Polish boy was knowledgeable enough and
did know smiling is not a norm at all in Japan,
I can still justify my own action by thinking
as in
"Well, 'Japanese in Poland' is weird enough, suspicious enough.
Then, additional, extra, minor weirdness is nothing to worry about, it's not my business"
Our "smile battle" continued for 3 min
He acted like a cool boy
He knew being cool suited his character
He knew a cool face increased his attractiveness
I tried hard to decrease his attractiveness
And in the end
"I won" and he smiled
I was too happy
Before leaving, I said
"Thanks for this help. Have a great day"
He replied
"Arigato Gozaimasu! ('Thank you' in Japanese)"
.......He definitely knew
smiling is not a norm in Japan
