久しいね

Which is what an old boy said to me about a year and a half ago as I stood outside the supermarket in Shin Minato waiting for a taxi. He seemed under the impression that he knew me from somewhere, but hadn't seen me in ages. So he walked up to within a few inches of my nose, looked me up and down, and said, "Been a long time, hasn't it?" Once we had got the preliminaries out the way, he asked me if I was an 英語人, an eigojin. Well, I have been called many things in my time, but that was a first.