Today I made some Taiyaki (fish shaped 'sweet cake' filled with a filling like custard cream or red bean paste) when I got in from school. I'm a huge sweets person so I ate most of them with the help of Zinnie and Charlie. We made a bunch but still had a lot left after we ate. Charlie, the joker of the group said that we should go ding dong ditching in her neighborhood. Ding Dong Ditch or Pin Pon Dasshu is when you ring a door bell and then you run off as fast as you can. So me being me surely wanted in on this fun. Zinnia not so much, she didn't feel like it was right to ring someone's bell without really needing anything. She thought that maybe we can leave some custard cream tayaki on the porch before we run off so that the person gets a sweet surprise when they answer the door.
We packed up several bags of the sweets and changed into our tennies and tied our long hair into ponytails before we started our childlike prank. We quietly tipped toed out of the house and acrossed my lawn. Our first target was a few houses down from ours, Mr. Johnson. Trying to hide behind the bushes at the foot of his house was difficult. We all weren't 10 anymore and our giggles didn't help. Charlie climbed over me and handed a small plastic zip lock baggie to Zinnia. She explained that all she had to is drop the bag on the porch and ring the bell (pin pon) and run as fast as you can (dasshu). With a nod of agreement Zippy Zinnie grabbed the bag and started to run across the street and up to Mr. Johnson's yard. I looked away for a second at Charlotte who couldn't stop laughing. By time I looked up Zinnia was already back across the street and looking at me as she pointed at Mr. Johnson's house. We watched as she opened the door and looked around confused at his empty porch. When he finally noticed the sweets he picked them up and smiled.
"Your turn Miss Okazaki, " Charlotte handed me a bag, it was still warm and smelled of sweet vanilla cream. "You have to do the Valentine's house." Darn, I was stuck with doing my cousin's house. She has the loudest and oldest sounding porch in the neighborhood. Since I never turn down a prank, I clutched onto the bag and crawled out from behind the bush and started to walk down the street to her house. It's hard being a ninja when it's tons of leaves all over the sidewalk.
I started running up the street to her house but a twig laying on the ground quickly ruined that. My knees was okay, due to the fact I was wearing sweat pants. I rolled over onto my back and rested for a second before I got up and ran carefully to her house. The porch groaned as I tip toed on it.
I heard her dog barking loudly so I quickly dropped the bag and rang the bell. I heard footsteps so I ran really really fast away from the house. Panting heavily I fell onto the grass beside the girls when I caught up to them. I was the slowest girl so when I got back to them I seen that the bag of Taiyaki was empty. Man, I'm slow.
After a while we headed back to my house to warm up with some hot chocolate. Yummy yummy.
Whoa this was a long post, sorry.
Ps- I'm moving on from the picture thief, if she wants to be a thief then so be it.
