Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Rykk wrote:
> > Declan Murphy wrote:
> > 
> >> Just popped home to the apartment to pick up some dictionaries and
> >> stuff. Checked the mailbox on the way out to find that I received a
> >> new updated guide to Okazaki's ultra-intrusive & meiwaku recycling
> >> "system".
> >> It has my apartment number written on it, and the title is "Mais
> >> Reciclagem, Menos Lixo no Seculo 21 - Guia Oficial". On the front
> >> cover, no less a man than Tokugawa Ieyasu himself informs us that
> >> "Separar por tipos e a melhor maneira de reduzir o lixo". I checked
> >> the mailboxes of the two other gaigins living in the 8 apartment
> >> block and they likewise received Portuguese (despite being American
> >> and Chinese respectively). The other apartments got a Japanese
> >> version, so the only way they knew that a gaigin lived in B-201 was
> >> from the same database that would list my nationality etc.
> >>
> >> Perhaps the city hall staff and the Family Mart Hijinks Krew could get
> >> together for a beer or three and a think. I would even be prepared to
> >> give them a free Guinness each if it would help.
> > 
> > Something like that would annoy me to the point of making a big stink.
> 
> I guess so. Rather than annoyance I just found it amusing and actually
> spent more time looking at the recycling guide than I have in a long 
> time. Just to see exactly how little of the Portuguese I could 
> understand etc.

It was a puzzel. How clever of your local authorities to think of it....

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