Quote:How about the time honored ploy of 'oh, so sorry, but you're here now and we can't do anything about that, somebody else got the job, you get no refund on your plane ticket, have a very nice day gaijin-dono'. Dunno what job that'd have been. He makes ends meet and tries to earn enough to not only feed him for the next month or so but to save up for an airline ticket doing low level code-jockeying/data entry/whatever.
A dull, dead-end type of job for the nebbish {Lori gets him a better one somehow, something like he has a wasted talent that she would have gotten him to use if she'd been on time}
He's got this big stack of printouts and sheets of handwritten stuff that he hauls with him - turns out he's a more than decent writer, in both English and Japanese, but never had the confidence to try and publish his stuff for various reasons. Not the least of which being that most of it was written back when an SO for him was supposed to show up, so it's inventive but a fair bit of it is also in the genre of far too mushy teen-romance stuff (*wince*). Or maybe he just starts to sell ideas, because Lori liked one of the old things so much she took it to school with her, spread it around, and one of her "peer group" has an older sibling who's part of a writers circle, or maybe an illustrator for light novels ...
... you get the idea.
-Griever
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm