Yesterday, I thought about watching television for the whole day after Waseda was passed by again at the 19th station of the Ekiden, but still I went out to see a concert. It`s a foppish new year concert, but I could obtain only one ticket this time, and so I thought about not going. But since Waseda is, well, they tried their best.
Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall is a walking distance, so I walked working off a meal.
Corso Wien. Orchestra from Vienna. Of course, Mozart and Johann Strauss. Sound of a new year, naturally.
I was a little bit late, and so I greeted the lady sitting next to my seat, but she had a very scary look on her face. Although the concert had not yet started, she gave me a sharp glance as if she was saying
“You`re late!”.
First of all, Chako chan Sensei feels that it is impolite to turn the buttock in front of a person`s face when passing by a seated person, so Chako chan Sensei passes by a person by looking towards the seated person, but it seems that she did not like the way I got seated.
When the performance started, the lady waved her head by the rhythm to the extent that she might have a whiplash.
The conductor was playful, and when the trombone made a mistake in starting, he looked back at the audience and urged the audience to applause. The way he did it was cute and funny, and so I laughed with my mouth wide open.
That moment, Chako chan Sensei breathed the wind from the air conditioner!
Oh my God! My coughing will not stop. Not to make sound, I held my mouth with the scarf around my neck, but kept on coughing, coughing, coughing.
Then that lady next to me made a really fearful face and stared, and took out a mouth mask from her handbag.
Fortunately the intermission soon followed, and my cough settled down with a warm cup of tea.
Now the second act, and again I returned after she was seated and she stared at me again, and immediately she put on her mouth mask.
So sarcastic, I thought, but watching her enjoying the music with her head waving,
“This lady might be a nurse, and she might be thinking that it will cause problems to others if she catches a cold, and that this concert is a momentary break for her.”
When I thought it this way as I was listening to the waltz, the fearful lady became a lovable person within me.
I did not cough anymore thanks to the tea, and the concert ended nicely after clapping hands to the polka.
“Please excuse me.”,
and I bowed to her, but she had the looks as if she is saying,
“You sure did cause problems.”
I left the scary situation in a hurry and when I went to the cloak to receive my coat, I can`t find my bag with the receipt in it!
Hastily I returned to the seat, and found the lady holding Chako chan Sensei`s bag with a confused face.
“I`m sorry, I forgot that.”
“I was just about to hand it to the attendant here.”
“Again and again please excuse me.”
“No problem.”
“By the way, my coughing is not by a cold. The wind from the air conditioner went into my organs when I laughed with my mouth wide open.”
“Really. I have a sick person at home, and my manner was exaggerated. I apologize for my manner.”
Thanks to the bag, we both left the concert hall with a nice smile to each other.
All`s well that ends well.
