Jason Cormier wrote:
> "Meanwhile, the lifting of a ban on bringing in homemade bento boxed
meals
> has delighted visitors while disappointing restaurant operators at
the expo.

Is it entirely coincidence that your first post in months(?) refers to
homemade bento? I have a vision of you being the first expo visitor to
have a homemade bento box exceeding 3 kilograms in mass.

> Hopefully, everyone has had their fill of Expo by early August so Rie
and I
> won't have to deal with insane line-ups.

Just go on a weekday. Even when the school holidays are on, weekdays
are quieter. Personally I don't care about the lineups at expo. I just
want chubians to quit going to the frigging airport "for a look/for a
bath/for a date" so that I can get on and off that bloody island
quicker. It has become a freak show. Hopefully expo will wean everybody
off the "Let's go to the airport for lunch" lunacy before much longer.