At the high-way service area on the way to home from my country home,

when I said "I am going to buy a souvenir for my company members", all of my family gasped in surprise.

"You buy a souvenir for company?"

"You said that that the souvenir for company is bad habit in Japanese society, because it is a symbol of qualm against private vacations, so we should stop this bad habit"

"To begin with, I don't believe that you have coworkers who can give you or can be taken a souvenir in your company"

I could understand how my family looked at me in my office.

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Ebata:"In short, I am tired of this resistance movement. Because the grass-root movement have not been spread out at all"

Wife:"You have not receive any souvenir from your coworkers, have you? "

Ebata:"I have received all of them naturally"

Wife:"It is paradox"

(To be continued)