The 2-Belo wrote:
> I hereby request someone to please explain to me why escalator etiquette in
> Osaka/Kobe is completely ass-backwards from that in Nagoya, to wit: in Osaka and
> Kobe, people stand on the right to allow people to pass on the left, the
> opposite of what I'm used to, so I'm constantly standing on the wrong side.

Correct me if I'm wrong, actually don't, but my experience of Nagoya 
over the past 10 years is that all too often the bastards stand in the 
bloody middle. Well only if they are over a certain age of course. But 
that still makes them bastards.

> 500 words or less, please, and the following words and phrases are forbidden in
> your answer:
> 
> 1. Ancient
> 2. Traditional
> 3. Samurai
> 4. Ninja
> 5. Zaibatsu
> 6. "All your base are belong to us" 

I read somewhere that it had something to do with an expo. Maybe in two 
years Aichi can follow suit and at least agree to stand on one side?




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