The Yakult guy came today. Yakult is a Japanese pro-biotic drink that is ubiquitous and a staple of life here in Japan.
Often, sales reps will unexpectedly show up at your door offering you samples, and informing you of the latest marketing campaign.
Well, today was such a day, and my son and I received two free samples and a flyer with a nice big picture of a smiling dude holding a bottle of Yakult. Immediately I felt my hands reaching for an eraser. I used to make fake tabloid newspapers when I was a kid, erasing the eyes of celebrities and writing stories about how they were really aliens. Isaiah got a really big kick out of this and was laughing and helping me draw on the poor guy who had posed for the ad, never having any idea he would one day be turned into a demonic, pro-biotic zombie alien.
We made a backstory about the drink, changing its name from "Yakult" to "Kult," and as we drank our free samples, pretended to turn into zombies, smiling and nodding in mock, wide-eyed trances at one another, laughing. You just can't do this type of stuff in school! Today we had a bit of priceless, spontaneous fun, and effortlessly explored the topics of:
- ZOMBIES/ALIENS
- POISON
- SPELLING
- THE OCCULT (in a five-year-old-appropriate way, of course)
- GRAPHIC DESIGN
DRINK. OBEY. RESTEEM! ;)
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~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)