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...to the system that put me through the hell of getting a Japanese driver's license because 'foreigners can't drive safely' when clearly it's the Japanese who don't know what the hell they're doing.
Here I was, trying to get home from a day in the Big City when it started snowing. I mean SNOWING. Snowing like I've never seen snow, and this from someone who's weathered decades of Great Lakes area/UP winters. I am talking visibility that extended maybe two feet in front of the windshield. I am talking driving snow that covered side windows within minutes. I am talking about this on Japanese roads, which are rarely plowed, thus resulting in about three inches of solid ice over which I was trying to drive my car.
I was doing thirty kilometers per hour down the highway and still felt as though I was going too fast. I am talking car after car passing me in those weather conditions, most of them going in excess of 80 kilometers per hour - in those weather conditions.
I turned to my passenger and told her that I guaranteed we would see one of those people in an accident.
Well, we didn't actually see any of them in an accident, if only because the 61 car pileup they caused shut down the interchange, thus forcing me onto narrow ass country roads in even worse conditons and preventing me from getting to where I needed to go.
Way to show this foreigner some some safe driving, Nippon!
In a vain attempt to tie this rant back into fandom, next month's Saiyuki promises to be something of a 61 car pileup as well.
これで以上です。
Here I was, trying to get home from a day in the Big City when it started snowing. I mean SNOWING. Snowing like I've never seen snow, and this from someone who's weathered decades of Great Lakes area/UP winters. I am talking visibility that extended maybe two feet in front of the windshield. I am talking driving snow that covered side windows within minutes. I am talking about this on Japanese roads, which are rarely plowed, thus resulting in about three inches of solid ice over which I was trying to drive my car.
I was doing thirty kilometers per hour down the highway and still felt as though I was going too fast. I am talking car after car passing me in those weather conditions, most of them going in excess of 80 kilometers per hour - in those weather conditions.
I turned to my passenger and told her that I guaranteed we would see one of those people in an accident.
Well, we didn't actually see any of them in an accident, if only because the 61 car pileup they caused shut down the interchange, thus forcing me onto narrow ass country roads in even worse conditons and preventing me from getting to where I needed to go.
Way to show this foreigner some some safe driving, Nippon!
In a vain attempt to tie this rant back into fandom, next month's Saiyuki promises to be something of a 61 car pileup as well.
これで以上です。
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We're going on four years with this fandom. You'd think my brain would have gotten tired of it by now.
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(I've become so much worse a driver than I used to be since I moved here... it's catching, darn it. I'm turning into a speed demon like everyone else, and they're still passing me in the fast lane.
Glad you got home safe! (Eventually.)
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I had to drive in conditions like those once, and it was so nerve-wracking that after twenty minutes I gave up and parked, just like all the sensible truck-drivers alredy had.
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Problem with the interchange here is that there is virtually nowhere to pull over - not even the shoulder of the road, seeing as such things do not exist in this country. Urg.
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And that was a great description for the next chapter of Saiyuki! (In no way am I looking forward to the next Zero Sum.)
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Ditto on the Saiyuki sentiment. Shonen Jump, alas, has spoiled me to the point that I get really really impatient when I have to wait more than 2 weeks for the next installment of something. Perhaps kidnapping Minekura and forcing her to work is the solution?