Mad Dan wrote:
> Jason Cormier <fjlij@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<BC332023.7E4DC%fjlij@hotmail.com>...
> 
>>The fact that he cannot get another teaching job in Japan says a lot.
>>
>>(From the usual source of amusement.)

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>>Many times while living in Japan I could not wait to return to America. Upon
>>my return, though, I was stunned to enter into total disarray. Eleven months
>>later, I'm still going through reverse culture shock and decompression. The
>>things I used to make fun of, such as a uniformed society -- from students
>>to travel agents -- bagging my own groceries, hard work etc., somehow became
>>what I believed in.

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>>JAMES ROSEN 
>>Kapaa, Hawai 
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> 
> He made fun of "bagging his own groceries"???
> 
> Lazy shit.

Is "bagging" your own shopping considered unusual in Kapaa, Hawai? I've 
been to a lot of places, but I can't remember "bagging my own groceries" 
anywhere. Admittedly I haven't spent much time buying stuff in sepponian 
supermarkets.

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I am not who you think I am
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...or some such shite.