Nothing to do,
Nowhere to go-o-o-o-o-o
I want to be sedated…
Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!
Take me to the doctor,
Before I go insa-a-a-ane…
I NEED to be sedated!!!
Please send Valium …. AND…..CHEeeeeeeESE!
You would not BELIEVE how expensive cheese is here! Send ANY kind of cheese…PROCESSED FAKE ORANGE-COLOUR “cheese” would be GREAT! I’d EVEN go for VELVITA !!! That’s how desperate we are!! And actually, to think about it… Velvita WOULD ship well…the shelf life is something like 1 million years…isn’t it?!!
The Japanese people are so very polite and nice. They are all so much shorter than I was expecting…and they are all so nice and fit and thin!! (No fat “Super-sized” American’s here!) I am wondering, however… are they thin because food is so expensive?? Or is it because they cycle EVERYWHERE?!!
The bicycle is THE MODE of transportation in and around Tokyo! Children, grannies, hip-hop cool dudes… EVERYONE rides a bike- EVERYWHERE! AND… they all have a basket attached to the front—if not the back as well. Basket for the briefcase to the office, or schoolbooks to classes, a child in a seat in front & sometimes behind as well!, or bread and beer for home…. I MUST get a basket for my bike when it arrives!!!! OR-risk looking (more) like a gaijin (westerner—aka idiot). Outside of train stations it is a SEA of bicycles. I’m not sure HOW they know WHICH one is theirs!
The Japanese drive on the “Correct Side Of The Road” –this according to Stephen-san (which means the LEFT side of the road). Hmm Right…
What I find interesting is… The Japanese ALSO drive in the MIDDLE of the road. Busses, cars, taxis, bicycles… Upon encountering an on-coming vehicle, a game of “Chicken” ensues… One vehicle must swerve left into their lane in order to avoid a sure collision. I am not entirely sure about how the “pecking order” goes here (sorry for the pun)… BUT! At the VERY last minute –the one (looser) vehicle jolts left 1st and then the other (bully) vehicle cuts left- JUST ENOUGH so as for the split second the two vehicle’s pass… a mere 5 millimetres distance is created...the two drivers can SMELL the o-sake that the other drank the night before! (and hopefully NO curry!)
What is further amazing…is that the cyclists swerve around in this same manner – on the same thorough-fares… Imagine a ballet. Cyclists – some with children (kodomo) in their baskets, some with groceries… Busses full of hitobito (people)…Taxis packed with eejits (business men)… swerving and darting to and fro… it really is a Risk Manager’s nightmare!! BUT it WORKS for them!! I have yet to see an accident…but then again…WATASHI-WA (I) have YET to hit the streets…!
Mata’nee
-rebekah
Nowhere to go-o-o-o-o-o
I want to be sedated…
Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!
Take me to the doctor,
Before I go insa-a-a-ane…
I NEED to be sedated!!!
Please send Valium …. AND…..CHEeeeeeeESE!
You would not BELIEVE how expensive cheese is here! Send ANY kind of cheese…PROCESSED FAKE ORANGE-COLOUR “cheese” would be GREAT! I’d EVEN go for VELVITA !!! That’s how desperate we are!! And actually, to think about it… Velvita WOULD ship well…the shelf life is something like 1 million years…isn’t it?!!
The Japanese people are so very polite and nice. They are all so much shorter than I was expecting…and they are all so nice and fit and thin!! (No fat “Super-sized” American’s here!) I am wondering, however… are they thin because food is so expensive?? Or is it because they cycle EVERYWHERE?!!
The bicycle is THE MODE of transportation in and around Tokyo! Children, grannies, hip-hop cool dudes… EVERYONE rides a bike- EVERYWHERE! AND… they all have a basket attached to the front—if not the back as well. Basket for the briefcase to the office, or schoolbooks to classes, a child in a seat in front & sometimes behind as well!, or bread and beer for home…. I MUST get a basket for my bike when it arrives!!!! OR-risk looking (more) like a gaijin (westerner—aka idiot). Outside of train stations it is a SEA of bicycles. I’m not sure HOW they know WHICH one is theirs!
The Japanese drive on the “Correct Side Of The Road” –this according to Stephen-san (which means the LEFT side of the road). Hmm Right…
What I find interesting is… The Japanese ALSO drive in the MIDDLE of the road. Busses, cars, taxis, bicycles… Upon encountering an on-coming vehicle, a game of “Chicken” ensues… One vehicle must swerve left into their lane in order to avoid a sure collision. I am not entirely sure about how the “pecking order” goes here (sorry for the pun)… BUT! At the VERY last minute –the one (looser) vehicle jolts left 1st and then the other (bully) vehicle cuts left- JUST ENOUGH so as for the split second the two vehicle’s pass… a mere 5 millimetres distance is created...the two drivers can SMELL the o-sake that the other drank the night before! (and hopefully NO curry!)
What is further amazing…is that the cyclists swerve around in this same manner – on the same thorough-fares… Imagine a ballet. Cyclists – some with children (kodomo) in their baskets, some with groceries… Busses full of hitobito (people)…Taxis packed with eejits (business men)… swerving and darting to and fro… it really is a Risk Manager’s nightmare!! BUT it WORKS for them!! I have yet to see an accident…but then again…WATASHI-WA (I) have YET to hit the streets…!
Mata’nee
-rebekah
posted by spiced couple at Thursday, September 29, 2005
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