Re: Housing Search in Japan
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 22:02:13 -0400, "Kevin Gowen"
<kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:
>John W. wrote:
>> Michael Cash <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
>> news:<01njhvss7d9ai082c7fnv6720t0bmr8cgs@4ax.com>...
>>
>>> Hard to place an add for "an inadequate shithole with a roof" and get
>>> much interest. But call it an "efficiency" and you're in business.
>>>
>> My friend's apartment in Japan was so narrow that he could stand in
>> the middle and, with only a slight lean, touch the walls. It was maybe
>> ten feet long, possibly fifteen. It was a shithole, but convenient.
>
>Sounds like a real 便所.
No, those are the ones where you can sit in the middle and with an
imperceptible lean touch the walls (with your shoulders). The places
where people built like me or Jason back in to begin with, because we
know there ain't no way we're going to be able to turn around once
inside.
--
Michael Cash
"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."
Prof. Ernest T. Bass
Mount Pilot College
http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/
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