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“If there’s anything you don’t understand, feel free to ask me,” smiles the veteran OL to the new company recruit. “Anything at all.”
It’s that time of year again. The ladies in the office (OLs for short) are all in a flutter, smirks Shukan Taishu (April 21), over the April newcomers—young men, hardly more than boys, fresh out of school “in their brand new suits.”
The magazine regales us with charged encounters, from which we proudly present the following:
Misae, 35, works for a Tokyo realtor, and one of her responsibilities is setting up training lectures for the freshmen, seven or eight a year, who join the firm each April.
At one lecture this year, a young man we’ll call Wataru had the misfortune to doze off, which earned him a severe scolding from his new employers. True, it’s not the best way to launch a new career; still, Misae was struck by the woebegone dejection Wataru displayed. Thinking to cheer him up, she invited him out for a drink.
They went to an izakaya pub, where, to her surprise, her encouragement and good cheer failed to rouse him. How sad, she thought. She felt sorry for him. He was taking it so seriously when really, it was nothing, nothing at all. “Come,” she said, “let’s go somewhere, just the two of us.”
She took him to a love hotel. Even here he seemed distracted, distant. “Shall we take a shower?” She loosened his belt, unzipped his trousers. Here she was in for a surprise. “My,” she said, “aren’t you big!”
“Until then,” she tells Shukan Taishu, “all the men I’d been with were over 30. Young guys really are different, aren’t they?” The experience seems to have been an education for both of them.
Nanami, 39, wasn’t pleased to be saddled with freshman-training. “It’s usually pretty boring,” she says. She works for a pharmaceutical firm, selling to hospitals, and Osamu, her trainee, was full of just the sort of self-satisfied conceit that reinforces a veteran’s prejudices against the young generation. “He’d say things like, ‘I hang out with girls in the sex business, and there isn’t much I don’t know about women.’”
Well, good for him! But you can only take so much of this kind of thing, and Nanami, in the car with him on her sales rounds, was a captive audience. Finally her patience snapped. Near one of the hospitals was a love hotel, and she pulled in. “We’ll see about all that ‘experience’ of yours,” she thought.
Osamu was surprised but not abashed. His confidence was quite genuine. And he lacked nothing in eagerness. But Nanami smiled to herself as she regarded his fumbling attempts to arouse her. When she spoke, it was gently. “Tell me the truth,” she said. “You’re not experienced at all, are you?”
“Well… er… no,” stammered Osamu. “It’s all right.” She had been assigned to train him, after all. And she set to work with a will.
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electric2004 at 02:03 AM JST - 12th April
Northlondon,
thanks for your frank expression. I felt the same - when some posts were deleted for a simple harmless joke, or other messages were edited to cut out things which the mod did not like. Actually, I think I have read this story before in a book like "Tabloid Tokyo". But I gave it to friends, so I can not check it easily now.
Sarge at 11:01 PM JST - 12th April
"She loosened his belt, unzipped his trousers... "My, she said, "Aren't you big!"
He must have had quite an erection, eh?
mayuko at 10:46 PM JST - 13th April
How come Japan Today uses Shukan Taishu as a source? For those who don't know about the magazine, its articles have the lowest quality...you can find better ones on Friday...or Playboy!
bushlover at 11:40 AM JST - 14th April
Congrats JT. You have come a long way from your dry humor. Articles like this are a step in the right direction and pretty soon I hope that you get up to Harlequin Romance standards. Next time try a bit more details of what transpires.
By They Way, where can I meet Misae and Nanami?
M51T at 12:00 PM JST - 14th April
But considering at this point in time, the most commented on article is the "McDonald's Porn Film", maybe JT is just providing what the majority seem to be interested in?
Not my cup of tea, but, hey it's making some people happy.
greenteaonsens at 10:25 AM JST - 15th April
JT outdoes itself again...
pathetic, just pathetic.
Brainiac at 10:32 AM JST - 15th April
Darn, this never happened to me. Some guys have all the luck.
frontandcentre at 02:00 PM JST - 15th April
If they want to get it on which freshmen, surely all they have to do is pull rank on them. "I am your sempai" will often work in this country whether we are talking about telling your juniors to go and jump off a cliff or getting them into bed
Bushlover - if you cannot find sex-starved older women in Japan you must be living in a monastery...
capone at 06:27 PM JST - 15th April
pffft...like this would ever happen
CMEANDU26 at 07:57 AM JST - 17th April
I didn't believe this story until one of the OL that I know told me that stuff like this happens all the time. I asked her for an application to work where she does. She laughed at me. I guess good things happen to a lot of people.
bushlover at 10:53 AM JST - 17th April
A big 乾杯 to Misae and Nanami. I'm still lookin for em though.
anderstungtwist at 06:42 AM JST - 1st May
Aren't the younger guys basically lousy lays?
dano2002 at 12:22 PM JST - 2nd May
this story is a complete lie on so many levels. at least in my office where the OLs would not waste their time on any entry level person. they are looking for much much more.
curlygene at 07:07 PM JST - 2nd May
Why the hell are still you running this story, JT? It's been festering here for over 2 weeks now. Don't you have anything fresh to replace it with?
Sarge at 07:18 PM JST - 2nd May
Damn, I forgot all about this article...
"She loosened his belt, unzipped his trousers. Here she was in for a surprise. "My, she said, aren't you big!"
Gosh, I'm gettin' all turned on, ha ha ha...
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