Declan Murphy wrote:
> Just popped home to the apartment to pick up some dictionaries and
> stuff. Checked the mailbox on the way out to find that I received a
> new updated guide to Okazaki's ultra-intrusive & meiwaku recycling
> "system".
> It has my apartment number written on it, and the title is "Mais
> Reciclagem, Menos Lixo no Seculo 21 - Guia Oficial". On the front
> cover, no less a man than Tokugawa Ieyasu himself informs us that
> "Separar por tipos e a melhor maneira de reduzir o lixo". I checked
> the mailboxes of the two other gaigins living in the 8 apartment
> block and they likewise received Portuguese (despite being American
> and Chinese respectively). The other apartments got a Japanese
> version, so the only way they knew that a gaigin lived in B-201 was
> from the same database that would list my nationality etc.
>
> Perhaps the city hall staff and the Family Mart Hijinks Krew could get
> together for a beer or three and a think. I would even be prepared to
> give them a free Guinness each if it would help.

Something like that would annoy me to the point of making a big stink.  Not 
that I'm suggesting someone else do that.

Rykk