serial rock novel (irregular updates)
| Vol. 2 Work at the tent Work at the tent is dull. It’s just like playing. We’re just afraid of our boss, Mr. Sakita. Mr. Sakita is early 40s. He hits customers when he is disgusted with them. He was called “the Yakuza of Tent Village” and he set the mood for the shop. We have to look sharp. My job is selling leather jackets. Nari-chan is beside me. His job is to prepare the jackets for sale. There are many ways to prepare the stock for sale. The important thing is collect the hot styles from sellers. The hot styles are called “long” which are like a half-length coat. We receive a lot of them. I have no idea when this style was popular. I’d never seen that kind of leather jacket in old movies or photographs. The selling price for ones in bad conditions \8,000, but mostly between \12,000 to \45,000. I decide all of the prices. We immediately drive out to some used clothes shop in Chiba if we hear that there are some in good condition selling for \8,000. We buy about 30 and we sell them for \28,000 to \45,000. They sell like hot cakes. Because this is Harajuku, center of the world. I definitely reject if the US government asked to swap Hawaii for Harajuku. |