The astounding adventures of no one.

Sometimes I put people in awkward situations.
I was talking to another American who works for the same company about language barrier problems at work….and, you know, my Japanese isn't jaw dropping like Thane Camus or that dude from Megadeath or anything so I was trying to be humble, because I don't have the right not to be. Anyway, a Japanese friend from the building comes down to the lounge and I make a comment to her and she asks if he's my friend. I say well yeah but he lives here too, and she immediately starts speaking Japanese to him. Now I would appreciate this but he didn't really understand her question at all. She switched to English and it was fine but me and the girl have never spoken in English and I think she would rather speak in Japanese, and most of all, she understands English about as well as he understands Japanese. Her friends were there too and they were all speaking Japanese. Since I've been kind of neglecting them for a while (not like they sit and wait for me to spend time with them but you know, if you stop talking to people they think you don't like them sometimes and I don't want to), and because they are decent people and basically my only consistently Japanese conversation practice, I spoke to them a little bit in Japanese. And because I was in the middle of a conversation with the American dude, I tried to include him in the conversation. Now what should I do? Translate? That feels rude! Its like a jab saying my Japanese is better than yours and I know its not a nice feeling because people do it to me all the time when I don't need it just because I didn't catch one word. Not translate and risk him feeling completely alienated and feeling like shit about his level of Japanese; something I've also experienced. So I did what any sensible person would do and had two conversations at once. In the end, I couldn't focus on either of them and kind of spaced out and went to my room. This didn't exactly plague me for the rest of the day and it’s probably not the most interesting thing I’ll write here but it just got me thinking;

Human interactions are so complicated.
Cool.