>“I really can’t deal with people who leave the crust of their pizza…”
>Shino Suzuki talks about a sudden emotion she can’t even understand herself.
>Everyone carries different kinds of traumas, and you never know when, where, or whose emotional landmine you might step on. Still, because we all have some kind of internal scale, you’d think it would be rare to accidentally trigger someone’s landmine… or so I thought, but that turned out not to be true at all. Feeling bewildered by her own emotions, Shino Suzuki began to speak.
>“I really can’t handle it when people leave their pizza crust. I don’t even know why, but I just can’t. If it’s a whole piece of food left over or if there’s just a bit of something else left, that’s fine. But only the pizza crust—the part without toppings—being left behind is just impossible for me. The opposite is totally fine, though…” It seems this strange feeling has exploded several times even recently. It all started back in middle school, when she first saw a friend leave only the pizza crust and was shocked by it.
>“It was such a traumatic moment that I seriously think I must’ve been a pizza crust in my past life!” That’s how strongly the scene seemed to have affected her. The same thing happened with a colleague from her days as a bus tour guide—Shino got angry at someone for the first time in her life. The phrase she blurted out then, “Because I want us to stay together forever, please don’t leave your pizza crust,” has become almost like her catchphrase. The important part, of course, is the first half. She doesn’t want to drift apart because of pizza crust; she wants to protect the friendship, so she forces down her emotions and shapes them into words.
>Instead of just getting angry at someone one-sidedly, the fact that she chose to express it in such a way is very typical of Shino. Time passed, and about a month ago, something similar happened. When she was eating with her close friend Yuki Arai, Arai also left only the crust.
