Michael Cash and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:

>On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:01:44 +0900, The 2-Belo
><the2belo@msd.biPOKPOKglobe.ne.jp> brought down from the Mount tablets
>inscribed:
>
>>Ryan Ginstrom and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
>>
>>>So as a man in Japan, if you get divorced you lose your kids but keep your
>>>house and most of your paycheck. Unless you're a foreigner, in which case
>>>the house is probably in her name.
>>
>>Which is precisely why, when I signed up for 30 years' worth of home loans, I
>>made damned sure the house deed said "Jeff Boyd" on it. 
>>
>>See? All bases covered. I even thought in advance to marry a woman who has
>>enough brains in her skull not to completely disappear on me one day, which is
>>how responsible adults are supposed to act.
>
>Since the house is in your name, don't think of it as <new fjlij
>in-joke candidate> loosing </new fjlij in-joke candidate> your wife;
>think of it as gaining shitloads of closet space.

Heh. Actually my sister-in-law's piles and piles of crap take up more closet
space than my wife would ever dream of achieving. I tend to think I'm the proud
owner of a 30,000,000-yen storage shed.

Maybe I married the wrong one! Har!


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