Who needs friends when you have people, who might actually be robots, that type words of encouragement to you on internet message boards?

(Imagine this in a Boston accent for no good reason)

So there I was, just off the plane from Tokyo to Osaka and I’m looking for the person I’m meeting. I didn’t have a cell phone at the time so I get tired of waiting for them at the international gates – they’re not there – so I go searching for them. I look everywhere and, since I can’t find them at all, in the end decide to use a pay phone. In the process I run into some African guy at the train station (there’s always phones at the train station). After getting in touch with them I ask the guy if he needs any help since he keeps trying to call someone and looks lost and very confused.

So what happened with him is that he has some friends in Japan and he came to visit(?). He arrives in Osaka, at night, and he doesn’t know where to go. He tried to call his friends, but ended up doing something incorrect and lost all the minutes on his phone card (it wasn’t a lot of minutes). We got him straightened out only to find that his friends live in Tokyo. WTF. So we write some stuff on a piece of paper for him so that he can find a cheap hotel and then take the train to Tokyo the next day.

Nice kid, but what kind of friend doesn’t tell their friend which airport is closest to them and/or doesn’t meet them at the airport?