Short walk to the nearest Convenience store
on February 06, 2007This weekend I moved to Tokyo to live together with my girlfriend for the time being. I decided to study some Kanji ‘at home’ this afternoon, since I have a long time gap between the job interview this morning and the Japanese conversation course tonight.
After studying for a short while I felt like eating some caramel candy, so I left for the nearest convenience store, the Family Mart. The store is only one block away and open 24/7, hence the name convenient. The last time I visited during the night, I think that’s why I didn’t notice the five-floor high giant red ‘strawberry house’ next to it, they sell hello kitty items there.
Just like last time, I observed many Mercedes cars and luxurious domestic Toyota models. This is kind of strange, everyone should be working at this hour right? Well, they are, but they go there by train (Can’t blame them, this morning the train took me through 10 kilometers of metropolis in 11 minutes!). So the cars are just for showing off to the neighbors (that you don’t talk to in Tokyo). I have no problem with that, it’s good for the environment and pretty cars are nice to see (Yes, I admit it, I like watching Top Gear, which I guess makes me a stereotype male).
Apart from many fish and chocolate candy, there was no caramel in the Family Mart. There was something called ‘karamerry’ but it had the picture of an apple on it. Chocolate it is than.
