Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!i61-195-247-171.us.catvmics.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Strange incident at Immigration Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:15:52 +0900 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3FCACE88.4080601@hotmail.com> Reply-To: declan_murphy@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: i61-195-247-171.us.catvmics.ne.jp (61.195.247.171) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1070255579 64462005 61.195.247.171 ([139419]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:8615 Very strange happening at Immigration (Nagoya) - the official smiled at me. It was one of a sequence of odd and unusual events. I walked out only 37 minutes after entering (my record, also at Nagoya, still stands at 4 hours 17 minutes). My number was called (after being in a queue of all of five) only 8 minutes or so after taking the ticket. I had a seat! Strolled up to the counter, handed over my docs and konnichiwaed the bloke, and without so much as a by-your-leave, the fat bastard smiles. Less paperwork required than any previous visa renewal too. -- "All sepponians are loud, round, overweight, fat bastards who think their opinions are facts" (except the Raj, who seems to be having an identity crisis). All good Germans like beer. The Koreans are the French of Asia. Pommies are good at rugby" - Me "And I'll tell ya something, mate. Anti-wrinkle cream there may be, but anti-fat-bastard cream, there is none." The Full Monty