Michael Cash wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 08:54:19 +0900, The 2-Belo
> <the2belo@msd.biPOKPOKglobe.ne.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on
> going with:
> 
>>Michael Cash and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
>>
>>>On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:23:26 +0900, Declan Murphy
>>><declan_murphy@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
>>>with:
>>>
>>>>The 2-Belo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Eric Takabayashi and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
>>>>>
>>>>>>It seems Aichi drivers are worse than drivers in Fukuyama, whom people who've
>>>>>>moved from all over Japan complain about.
>>>>>
>>>>>The only place I've ever seen worse driving than Aichi would be downtown fucking
>>>>>Manila, where<snip>
>>>>
>>>>Manila sounds a bit like Hyderabad and Calcutta. For me though, the 
>>>>worse drivers here are those with license plates from naniwa. Somehow 
>>>>they manage to make mikawa drivers look polite.
>>>>
>>>>>In particular, Nagoya taxis. Those men should all be lined up and whipped with
>>>>>steering columns.
>>>>
>>>>Nagoya taxis never cease to amaze though. My driver from Sakae to the 
>>>>station last week was a hilarious early 30's woman with a great gift of 
>>>>the gab. For the first 10 minutes or so I thought she might be drunk, it 
>>>>wasn't until I got to the station that I realised she was just about to 
>>>>finish a 16+ hour shift.
>>>
>>>Sounds like my day yesterday. Started at 7:30 in the morning and got
>>>back at 11:10 last night. The difference between me and the cabbie,
>>>though, is that she got the next day off. Lacking time to even go
>>>home, I parked my truck in front of our fuel pump, where I knew it
>>>would be in the way and I would be awakened by someone before the time
>>>I would be late pulling out again, and *tried* to sleep. I got maybe
>>>an hour and a half or two hours before hitting the road again at 3:00
>>>this morning. Finished up about 5:30 this afternoon. Looks like
>>>tomorrow and the next day are going to suck even harder.
>>
>>So I can safely assume you're pretty much breathing coffee through your gills by
>>now?
> 
> Fuck no. I get my caffeine in tablet form. Much more efficient and
> inexpensive that way.

Wonderful things they are too. I've still got about a 1/4 of the bottle 
left. Getting a little worried about them though - expiration period? 
And should such tablets be left inside a van where the internal 
temperatures resemble an oven every time I leave it parked for an hour 
or more in the sun?




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