there’s no denying there are cultural differences between western and asian cultures.  however, the basic things seem to be the same.

for example, boys will always be boys.  i caught this group in the midst of their shenanigans in dotombori (道頓堀) on the famous nanpa hashi, which is a play on the actual name, namba hashi.  nanpa means flirting or trying to catch a girl.

so these blocks had the following ingenious idea.   they would wait for two or more cute girls to walk in their direction.  just before the girls would reach them, one guy (blue jacket in this case), would walk in front of the girls and “drop” his bag (bottom of photo).  the rest of the group would then try to “help” the girls maneuver around whilst making fun of their friend.  fantastic!  they got a bunch of laughs and some short conversation out of it.  notice the smiling girls on the right of the photograph.

i was laughing pretty hard.

it was a cute idea.  hopefully at least one of them got a phone number.  ;)

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