On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:24:22 +0900, Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson
<knicolson@pobox.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>...with five tonnes of omiyage (and she forgot a few people) and ten
>tonnes of hotel soap and tea and sugar and crap. Is it a common
>Japanese trait to ensure the hotel room is stripped clean of all
>available freebies?

This is a result of a process called おばん化 which is happening to
your wife. Get used to it.





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