"Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1g75zwj.1gwfdxuybbkhsN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com...
> Madra Dubh <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> > Do you live in Japan, Louise?
>
> It shows?
>
> > If so, do the street vendors still make and sell Yakitori?
>
> Yes.
>
> > And is the night rent with the cry "Osoba!"?
>
> Uh.... I've never heard that one.... Which is not to say that "Osoba" is
> not shouted in the night--just that it's never been done in my presence.
> But we do have two soba shops in the area that still deliver by
> push-bike. And a tofu peddler too.
>
> > And do they still have small "Mom and Pop" Saki stands where the glasses
> > sit, filled to the brim, in hot water, waiting for a customer?
>
> O-saki ni.... But maybe you mean "sake", in which case maybe they do,
> but I haven't seen glasses of sake prepared that way--just pottery
> flasks.
>
> > And do they still sell Bento at the railroad stations?
>
> Of course. And in department stores.
>
> > And are the Honey wagons still given a wide berth by the wildest drivers
in
> > the world?
>
> Yup. It's only recently that the last house in the neighbourhood that
> required the honey-truck was pulled down and an all-mod-cons prefab put
> up instead. It was nostalgic to see and smell the truck back again a
> couplathree weeks ago, to deal with a blocked drain.
>
> > And is the view from Sakai bridge as beautiful as it was forty years
ago?
>
> Dunno....
>
> > And is Mariko now an old woman with grandchildren of her own?
>
> Probably.
>
> > (I'll stop now and wipe a tear from me eye)
>
> (I'll hand you a hanky.)

Unbelievable!
I create this masterwork of lyric nostalgia, written as only one of Irish
extraction could and you hash it up with comments!
I bet you are an exceedingly practical person.
I also bet you wouldn't do something like this to a Haiku.

But you are right, I did fotch up the spelling of Sake.
Old age, don't you know.