Ryosuke has all the oddly productive hobbies like running, working out, meditating, and reading business books. It’s really weird. Anyways, last weekend he finally bought the pair of trail running shoes he’s had his eyes on for a while now. Aside from them being bright, neon orange with blue and green decals, they are trail running shoes, which is a fancy way of saying they have spiked ridges all along the bottom. He left the shoes in the genkon (entrance to the house) one afternoon and now our Japanese mom has been making fun of him non-stop because the shoes are ridiculous (not the color – surprisingly. No one has anything negative to say about the neon color, just the spikes). People have taken up to calling him “Spiderman” because they think his shoes would let him climb up walls. Never mind that no one in this house has actually seen Spiderman, read the comics, or has any elementary knowledge of the subject that didn’t come from Japanese variety television. This house is fun.
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