My first time in Japan we grabbed our first meal at a diner kind of place, it had counters in a large rectangle with the servers in the middle, so you were facing people on the opposite counter. I had tried chopsticks a few times in the states and failed miserably and hated it and couldn’t believe a couple billion people hadn’t starved to death trying to get food into their mouths with those things. But I was in Japan, open to new things, and well why not give it a solid try. And… it worked, though often my fingers went into an improper position that nonetheless worked. I was not a vision of grace but I succeeded in eating a meal. And we could see groups across from us looking and giggling, we smiled back, it felt good natured and a good time was had by all.
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