Chapter 10 car door

Once, when I got off work from NHK, actress Tomoko Naraoka, who I worked with, said to me enthusiastically: "I'm going to drive to Akasaka, if it's on the way, let's go together." I happened to be going there that day, and I was going to take a taxi, so I happily accepted the invitation.I was a little surprised that Ms. Naraoka could drive herself, but for some reason I always thought of her as the "I don't understand machines or anything" type.But if you think about it carefully, Ms. Naraoka is a fashionable modern woman. Let’s just say she walks. Although she walks slowly when she is acting, she seems very weak, but when she actually walks, she is quite heroic.So perhaps it's no surprise that Ms. Naraoka can drive a car.

We came to the parking lot of NHK West Gate.Ms. Naraoka's car is green and parked near the west gate.Ms. Naraoka took out the car keys, opened the door next to the driver's seat, pointed to the door next to the passenger seat, and said to me: "Please come up." I said "Okay" and stretched out my hand to pull the door, only to hear a "pop", and the door fell off!Only the lower part of the car door was still connected to the car, and there was something like a long metal pipe sticking out of the car from the bottom.Ms. Naraoka was sitting in the driver's seat. Seeing this scene, she exclaimed "Oops" with a very complicated expression on her face, and she didn't know how to describe it.I was also very surprised. For a moment, the appearance of the Hercules "Tianshuomanmei" played by the sumo wrestler Mr. Asashio in the movie appeared in my mind.I took the end of the metal pipe protruding from the car and tried to fit it into the hole in the fallen door, but the door was so heavy it seemed difficult to do.And Ms. Naraoka may be rushing to her next job.

"The door fell off, you can't drive like that, can you?" I also knew that the car would definitely not be able to drive after it became like this, but I still asked this question.Ms. Naraoka shook her head and said: "It's okay, I can leave the car here and go there first..." Her voice was very gentle, but mixed with some helpless sighs.I was so embarrassed that I said: "Let's fix it." As I spoke, I looked around to see if I could find a doorman or someone else who could help me. Fortunately for me, at that moment there was a commotion, and three men with violins came out of the gate.Just because they also hold the violin like my dad, I already think they are friends.I ran over and asked:

"Sorry, our door fell off, can you put it back on for us?" The three of them came to Ms. Naraoka's car and said: "Oh, it's like this! How did it fall?" I sincerely say: "I pulled it off, please help me put it back on." "Hey—the car door can't be pulled down with ordinary strength!" One looked at me and said.Upon hearing this, another tall man said: "No, it's people who have no strength who break things more. Things like breaking wooden window rails and pulling doorknobs are usually done by women. They think they have no strength, even if they don't need to do much. Strenuous things, they will use brute force at the beginning. But men rarely break those things, because men use ordinary strength to use them."

I think what he said makes sense.I have often seen women use all their strength to open the window, and the window fell off and fell down; some women pulled the lid of the tea pot so hard that they spilled the tea.I didn't realize that maybe it wasn't that the woman's behavior was too rude, but that the woman thought it was "difficult to open" and used her strength too much. The three of them raised the car door and pushed it in while talking, and I was secretly worried that it might not be repaired, but I was surprised that they put the car door on all at once.One of them was lucky enough to know a thing or two about cars.The metal pipe protruding from the outside of the car was retracted at some point.A stone in my heart finally fell to the ground.I thanked all three people a thousand times, and I kept waving until they walked out of the parking lot with their instruments.However, when I came back to my senses, I realized that I was locked out of the repaired car door.I shouted to Ms. Naraoka from the car window:

"It's not good if you pull down the door again, can you go first?" Ms. Naraoka opened the window, pointed to the door next to the driver's seat with a smile, and said: "Just come through the door on my side, please." I thought about it. After the car started, the door might still fall off. If I was in the car, I could press the door from the inside.I nervously opened the driver's door and got in, stepped over the protruding transmission, and sat on the passenger seat.Ms. Naraoka started the car and drove out.I kept my eyes on the car door, luckily the car arrived in Akasaka unharmed.I stepped cautiously over the transmission again and got out of the car after Ms. Naraoka.

I really caused a big trouble for Ms. Naraoka. Speaking of me using brute force, something just happened a while ago.I was at Nagoya Station preparing to take the Shinkansen going north. I ran forward in a hurry and managed to catch up with the time.I thought to myself: "Great!" When I was about to get in the car, the door in front of me didn't open.I was very surprised when the departure bell rang. After a closer look, I found that this door was located between the dining car and the simple dining room. Only then did I know that passengers could not get on and off the bus through this door.But now it was too late to go to the other car doors. In desperation, I pulled hard on this car door. The door was half opened, and I squeezed in.The landing area was full of boxes containing beer bottles and juice bottles. I stepped over these boxes and walked into the car. My manager followed me and walked in over the boxes.Two salesgirls in white aprons stared at us with their mouths open.

I heard later that it is the entrance for carrying food and goods sold in the car, and no passengers have ever squeezed in from the outside with their hands on the car door.People also said that it was unbelievable that a customer tried to open the closed door of the Shinkansen with his hand. It is a blessing that the doors of the Shinkansen did not fall off.