MONKEY PARK
Osaka, Japan
Spring 1994
I don't remember who told us to go to this park but he said it would be fun.
"It's packed with moneys. They're everywhere and they are so friendly. You can feed them and they won't bother you", he assured us.
So a few of us went there to be amongst the monkeys. And he was right, there were hundreds of them and they roamed the park without notice of us, unless, of course, we had food. Then there was a very high interest in us.
There was one section that had fifty or sixty monkeys just sitting there, not doing much. For some reason, one of us thought it would be funny if we charged at the monkeys. We had no intention of hurting them. We just wanted to see what they would do if we came running towards us. So Greg gave the command and the rest of us started to run. The monkeys got up and ran as fast as they could and we laughed as hard as we could. After a few seconds,they got ahead of us and we stopped to catch our breathe.
The the situation shifted. The monkeys, in unison, did an about face and charged at us. HOLY SHIT!!!!!! They were coming right at us. We ran as fast as we could and we didn't stop until we were out of that damn park.
