Fuming in Tokyo

The truth about the Japanese is that they do a lot of things that seem stupid to us. It's best to laugh at it and not let it bother you. Usually that's what I do which is why I still love Japan despite all of the stupidity. Usually is the key word of course. Some things are just too much though. As most of you probably know. I just got a new cell phone because I lost the previous one. Anyways I just got the first bill for it. It was 4022 yen, a little higher than the old phone but still not too bad I thought, until I saw the billing date: Nov. 23rd-Nov.30th. Those...people at AU billed me for an entire month for a phone I used for a week of that month. Anyways they are going to hear about it tomorrow.

There are lots of annoying things like that in Japan and usually you just let it pass. For example, there's no such thing as buying in bulk here. I was at the pastery shop today and they had some type of pastry for 63 yen each. Or if you wanted, you could buy a bag of five for 315 yen each-exactly five times the price of the single ones. I felt like buying five individual ones just to make the lady go through the trouble of bagging them. Anyways that's my rant for this year. I think I cut those happy clappy jappy chappies quite a lot of slack considering how silly they can be sometimes.