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Jul 20 2004 2 Comments

You can’t miss it

As the Japanese take a rather relaxed approach to town planning, finding your way to someone’s house, a restaurant, or bar can be a tricky endeavor to say the least. More often than not a map is a necessity, as are numerous telephone calls, as you inevitably find yourself going round and round in circles.

Because of this, using landmarks is essential. Now in this department I’m quite fortunate as I live near a school and a well-known karaoke complex, so people usually have no trouble finding my humble abode. Yet I’m nowhere near as lucky as the people that live in an apartment building I came across yesterday. First off they can say, “My place is above the opticians.”

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Or to make things really easy, they can simply point out that they live below the giant gorilla.

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Categorized: General, Odd

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  1. jonathan says

    7/21/2004 at 11:35 pm

    but you might still end up going to the wrong gorilla. Best specify it’s the one smoking a cigar and wielding a red volkswagen Beetle.

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  2. Mr Tag says

    8/20/2004 at 6:01 pm

    That is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen!

    ps. Billy sent me 🙂

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