I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

So apparently this really happened in Japan – some hardcore gamer geek dude, meek as a mouse and the quintessential loser meets the perfect girl in the train, but is unable to make eye contact even. So along comes a drunk who harrasses her and he finds the balls to stand up against the man.

The gamer geek dude, who haunts a chat type IRC channel for single men in Japan, gets online and shares his experience. So when the perfect girl sends him a thank-you gift in the form of a pair of Hermes cups and saucers his channel friends finally give him the courage to pick up the phone and call her up for a date.

And thus the story of Train Man and his Miss Hermes is born. A few years later, it’s made into a movie and a tv series, and it’s the tv series I’ve been watching for the last couple of days. It’s not as entertaining as the Korean dramas, and it’s slightly confusing because of the weird subtitling, but otherwise it’s not bad entertainment.

It’s amazing, and it’s amazing that it was based off a real event. Now what I really want to know is if Train Man and Ms Hermes eventually got married or something. Banzai for internet themed romances!