Michael Cash wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:06:50 +0900, "Ryan Ginstrom"
> <ginstrom@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>
> >
> >"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> >news:3FDDDE99.C1B9766E@yahoo.co.jp...
> >> "John W." wrote:
> >> > Having said that, I once wound up on a freeway by mistake. The road just
> >> > became a freeway. Hard to explain.
> >>
> >> You missed seeing the toll gate going in?
> >
> >Assuming he meant expressway, there are some places where suddenly you're on
> >that elevated thingy with no escape, then hit the toll gate a few km later.
>
> Although road signage in Japan can be screwy, I have never encountered
> a location like that where it wasn't clearly indicated that the road
> was a toll road *before* you lose the chance to avoid it.

Suzuki and Tanaka had a bicycle race down Honshu relying on the hospitality of
strangers with the same surnames as themselves (Suzuki, a student at Waseda, once
went without food and slept outdoors in the oncoming winter cold for eight days,
losing about six kg in the process before someone took pity on him and let him in
their home. Meanwhile, Tanaka from Tokyo U. always had a good time.). Tanaka would
be so engrossed in looking at the ground directly under him while riding bent over
that he once ran into the rear end of an idled car ahead of him in addition to
suddenly finding himself on the highway in Hiroshima and stopped by police.

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