0802 walkin' osams

Jim Y came by to help me walk today. It was hot, so we made our way to Lakewood Center, where it’s cooler inside.

We’ve taken to calling each other “osam”, an anagram for “old single Asian male” and it’s made its way into our emails and in-person conversations.

Kinda reminds me of two female cousins of mine. They’re not sisters, but they act like it. They have the same pet name for each other and use it to talk about the other in the third-person tense. The word is “onara”. It’s Japanese, but I won’t translate it here.

My mother knows about it, since they are both her nieces. But she just shakes her head whenever they use it.