カイザー🐶に相手にもされず😪
、散歩がてら妻と一緒に久しぶりに近くのスーパーへ
ふと見ると太宰府の「梅ヶ枝餅」
まだ娘が幼い頃、博多座出演を終え帰京する際にお土産に「梅ヶ枝餅」を買ってきてほしいとねだられました
梅ヶ枝餅は博多でも福岡空港でも、どこにでもあるくらい人気のある太宰府名物
でもなぜかその日はどこへ行っても売り切れ
そんな馬鹿な…
いや、搭乗ゲートにもまだまだお店はあるさ…と思ったら
ないんです、梅ヶ枝餅…
次第に焦って覗いて歩いてもどこも売り切れ
やばい
残るは搭乗ゲートの一番端っこにあるお店
搭乗時間も近づき、いい加減焦っていた僕は小走りでお店までたどり着きました
すると…
あった
一個だけ残ってた
やったぁ
僕を待っていてくれたんだね
半ば感動して震える手つきで梅ヶ枝餅を掴もうとしたら…
なんと横にいた高齢の女性がむんずとその梅ヶ枝餅のパックを掴みレジへ
えぇ〜
嘘でしょ
冗談だよね
それは僕の梅ヶ枝餅だよ〜
結局梅ヶ枝餅買えずに我が家に帰りました
とそんな苦い思い出が蘇ってきました
門之助🤞
Eventually Kaiser kept sleeping and I had nothing to do except going to a nearby supermarket with my wife in the afternoon.
There, I found “Umegae Michi”, a popular Japanese sweets from Dazaifu, Hakata.
I remember trying to buy one for my daughter when she was still kid.
She asked me to get one for her as a souvenir from Hakata.
It’s such a simple and easy wish since Umegae Mochi is something extremely “common” in a sense and you can find it everywhere in the city of Hakata and at the airport.
I just don’t know why but they were all sold out in souvenir shops at the airport.
I tried every single shop there before going to the boarding gate.
But I had been thinking I could buy one somewhere at a shop on the boarding gate.
Surprisingly, none of the shops had one, not a single Umegae Mochi.
Unbelievable!
But at last, I could find ONE in the very end of the gate!
YES!
I made it!
The very last one in this lack has been waiting for me!
Rather impressed, I was almost reach the last one when the old lady beside me grabbed it and took it to the cashier.
NO WAY!
That’s mine!
This is so stupid.
I went home without Umegae Mochi.
As I saw one at a supermarket today, I couldn’t help smiling of the memory.