うごのたけのこ

Maybe you don’t know this Japanese expression;Bamboo shoots after Raining. This literally means bamboo shoots grow quickly after raining and appear here and there , and this expression is used to express that something similar which has little individuality appears one after another at a same time, falling over each other. For example, some singers or artists, or any people doing same things. We say “Like bamboo shoots after raining, they appear and ～.”
Last week, I experienced actual “bamboo shoots after raining” in my garden. I usually walk around my garden in the morning and in the evening, watching my vegetables, burying garbage from the kitchen for composting, or just walking. Last week, it rained almost 2 days, while I didn’t check the garden. On Friday morning, it cleared up and I went out to find a scary scene of my garden! Oh, there grew more than 15 hateful bamboo shoots!! I couldn’t believe how tall they grew in only 2 days. There was nothing 2 days ago, my garden was so peaceful, but now they were all 30 centimeters long, breaking the ground, disturbing and killing my vegetables, OH NO, what invaders! For they looked so strange and ugly, I felt like I saw some creatures from the other planets, I was petrified with terror at the sight. Honest. Quickly cut all of them and brought them to school. A science teacher told me that I could eat them, so I cooked them in the evening, to conquer. Despite all my efforts in April to dig up all the fucking bamboo roots growing deep underground, they are still there. I am very much disappointed and angry. Bamboo-invaders, Get Away from My Garden.
「雨後の竹の子」という言葉を実体験することになった。この言葉は、似たようなものが次々と出てくることの例えです。雨が降ったあと、竹の子がにょきにょきあっちにもこっちにも、われもわれもと生えてくることが語源であるのは言うまでもありません。それが実際、私の庭で起こるとは！ここに来てから私は朝夕に庭へ出て、野菜の育ち具合を見たり、生ゴミを捨てたり、または特に何もせずぼけーっと庭を歩いたり、ということが日課になっていました。先週、雨が１日半ほど降って、その間は庭に出ていなかったのですが。晴れ上がった金曜の朝に二日ぶりに庭に出ると、私が苦労して耕した畑の中に、野菜を持ち上げてにょっきにょっきとたくさんの竹の子が伸びているではありませんか。そのグロテスクな姿を見た時、私は一瞬身の毛がよだつ気分でした。こいつら、いつの間に生えたんだ？！いつのまにこんなに伸びたんだ？！たった２日で３０センチも？シンジラレナーイ！私の目には、突如庭を占拠したそのタケノコは何か意思を持った別の惑星の生命体のように、なんとも気味悪い存在でした。嫌悪感とともに全部切って、学校で見てもらったら食べられるとのこと。悔しい～食べてやる～！！４月にあんなに苦労して、深い根を何日もかけて掘りあげたのに、どういうこと？もう許さない！出て行け、タケノコ。