Of Ren Fests and absolute Freaks

My poor brother got shoved aside by some freak (I refuse to call this guy anything else) who seemed to state, quite simply, that I was wrong about a kanji interpritation. I was looking at katana, and they had diffrent kanji emblazoned on the scabbard. Hell, I used to wear ‘shin’ around my neck. Since I lost that, I’ve got a ‘life’ pendant… *thinking* inochi, I think it’s properly in romanji.

They had ‘virtue’ listed for Jin on one that had a few of the Bushido virtues (which they were flaunting as Bushido), and I looked at my brother, and I said ‘For Bushido, isn’t Jin translated as compassion?’ And this freak pushes my brother out of the way, and tells me that I’m thinking wrong, that he can teach me how to write it because some weird Japanese guy, FROM JAPAN, taught him. I asked him what did he mean? He said “well, the kanji’s written wrong” and I snorted and asked him if he saw it in katakana or.. *thinking* Higiana (spelling?). And my brother pipes up that I was going to college for literature and was learning katakana on my own. He blamed it on the movie ‘Shogun’ for the ‘wrongly written kanji’. *dying in laughter* It looked like Jin – Compassion to me. One short stroke going down to the left, one going up to the right, and two horizontal lines.

Then he brings out the ‘well, I learned this from a weird Japanese from Japan’. I snorted and I said, ‘Dr. Kenji Oshyrio from Sendai in Hokkaido taught me the basic fundamentals of Bushido in my Japan class, and what each one symbolizes. Of course, I may be wrong since I’ve watched Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai too many times.’

His response? “Yeah… uh well, I studied Martial Arts.” I snorted and I said I had a personal invitation from Hayes to come study and see his Dojo… He slunk off to look at the Kill Bill replica swords. ^^ I think what amazed me the most was that he SHOVED my brother out of the way to talk to me, and that my brother didn’t deck the asshole. *shaking head*

Don’t’cha just LOOOOOOOVE morons? Especially ones trying to impress you?