This really happened

Yesterday I was eating my lunch/dinner outside of McDonalds and I noticed a small group of old people sitting nearby, eyeing me: 2 old women with small dogs and 1 stooped and stubbly old man. The old man got up with some trash in his hand, took a few steps, looked around, and then stopped short. I was sitting between him and the trash can. He could walk past me to the trash can or he could go inside McDonalds, which was slightly more inconvenient. I could tell he was thinking: walk past the Gaijin? or go inside? walk past the Gaijin? or go inside? He decided to walk past the Gaijin. And when he was next to me he spoke. I couldn't understand what he was saying - even if I knew the words I think his Japanese was moderately unintelligible - but he seemed to be muttering some question about Nova and pointing in the direction of where I work, so I answered yes.

Now, it's not uncommon for people to speak to me, especially old people. Usually they're smiling and they repeat their words a few times. Not this man! He didn't smile and what he said to me he said only once. I'm pretty sure it was offensive. As an English teacher and a functionally illiterate resident of Tokyo I've gotten pretty good at non-verbal communication, and yeah, I'm pretty confident that this man really wasn't a fan.