Human...

[Saga]

 

I live in Osaka, Japan and often use the subway to go to work in the morning. One day while I was waiting for the train, I noticed a homeless man standing in the corner of the subway station muttering to himself as people passed by. He was holding out a cup and seemed to be begging for spare change.

An overweight woman passed by the homeless man and I distinctly heard him say, “Pig.”

Wow, this man is insulting people and he still expects them to give him money?

Then a tall businessman went by and the man muttered, “Human.”

Human? I can’t argue with that. Obviously, he was human.

The next day, I arrived early at the subway station and had some time to kill, so I decided to stand close to the homeless man and listen to his strange mutterings. A thin, haggard-looking man passed in front of him and I heard the homeless guy mutter, “Cow.” Cow? The man was much too skinny to be a cow. To me, he resembled a turkey or a chicken. A minute or so later, an obese man went by and the homeless man said, “Potato.” Potato? I was under the impression that he called all fat people “Pig”.

That day at work, I couldn’t stop thinking about the homeless man and his puzzling behavior. I kept trying to find some logic or pattern in what he as muttering. Perhaps he has some kind of psychic ability. In Japan many people believe in reincarnation, so maybe he knows what these people were during a previous life. I observed the man many times and began to think my theory was right. I often heard him calling people things like “Rabbit”, “Onion”, “Sheep”, or “Tomato”.

One day, curiosity got the better of me and I decided to ask him what was going on. As I walked up to him, he looked at me and said, “Bread.” I tossed some money into his cup and asked him if he had some kind of psychic ability. The man smiled and said, “Yes, indeed. It is an ability I obtained many years ago, but it’s not what you might expect. I can’t tell the future or read minds or anything like that.”

“Then what is your ability?” I asked eagerly.

 

“The ability is merely to know the last thing somebody ate,” he said.

I laughed because I realized he was right. He said, “Bread.” The last thing I had eaten for breakfast that day was toast. I walked away shaking my head. Of all the psychic abilities someone could have, that one must be the most useless.

 

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Did he say...human!?

[BlueNeon]

Mother of George!!! I realised that too, after I read it all:... last thing someone ate => O.O There is a cannibal free in Osaka.

Now about this story... I have to agree that his ability was somehow useless, but in the end the message was 'Things are not always what they seem'.

[707]

Either a cannibal or he just didn't know that what he ate was human.

[gin]

.lol the human guy. HAAH must be a psycho

[Rhye_Meow]

O.O i so hope he didn't realize it was human.or the old homeless guy made a mistake. But .. the one who 'ate' human was tall businessman. Hannibal Lecter written all over him. D: (love that dude though.. hannibal i mean)

[Never]

He ate a human? LOL!!

Literally or figuratively? (In business world nowadays people are ''eating'' each others)

[CheputChan19]

That homeless man was cool ^^ but is the businessman really eat human? He must be crazy Lol

[Belita]

Freaking scary... that somehow, someone out there is eating... humans! O_o

[M1st3rSk3l3t0n]

That guy said "Pig" and "Cow", but Id be suprised if they really ate whole animals so...

I consider myself mostly Human, that means my NAILS and FLESH must be Human too.

Maybe hes just a nail biter? Or he chewed in his lips?

[jo_suzaku]

*grin*

 

Your give away was "Bread",

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I would really love to meet this guy. Though I'm pretty sure I know what he'd say to me.

 

*grins wider*

[M1st3rSk3l3t0n]

Would he say "Weed-Cookies" dear

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