by Garland Davis
Bt2 and his girlfriend, nicknamed Hank, were waiting on the corner to cross the street to Yokosuka Main gate. He called her Hank because he said the line, “Hank of Hair and a Piec of Bone,” from Jimmy Rogers’s song, aptly described her and her Mama should have named her Hank.
BT2 pulled a handful of Japanese coins from his pocket and separated the five and fifty yen coins. When he had them separated, he flung them out into the street.
Hank exclaimed, ” Whatsa Matta you? Why you throw money?”
They ain’t no good. them mother fuckers got holes in ’em!”
Tales of an Asia Sailor 
Sadly, I met people along the way that would have said the same thing . . . Gotta love them.
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Noooo!!! You’re making that up! Right?
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I was always confusing Hong Kong coins with Japanese coins!
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A fool there was and he made his prayer
(Even as you or I!)
To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair,
(We called her the woman who did not care),
But the fool he called her his lady fair—
(Even as you or I!)
Rudyard Kipling – The Vampire
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