No Doubt

This might have been posted sometime in the distant past, but I still get a kick out of it...

You've Been In Japan Too Long When...

- You think that "Christmas" has four syllables.

- You start falling in love with the voice recording on the ATM machine, though you have no idea what she's saying.

- $16.75 a person sounds like a great deal for a movie, even if you do have to stand up.

- You run into a store and leave your scooter outside on the curb with the key inserted and the motor running.

- You start buying Carpenters CD singles -- and REALLY enjoying them!

- You start buying Beatles CDs -- and really enjoying THEM!

- You can't eat a Hamburger without green tea and miso soup.

- You order a pizza and ask for raw tuna, extra octopus and some pineapple on the side.

- You can't take a walk on even the shortest nature trail without first suiting up in a full yodeling outfit and stuffing a backpack full of rice balls and sake.

- You keep telling anyone who will listen that Sumo on TV is nothing like the real thing live and up close.

- You don't feel ripped off when you find a coin-operated TV in your $80/night business capsule hotel tube.

- You grow your sideburns long and slick your hair back like Elvis and think its cool.

- You think you're lucky to live near a building which has a disco in the basement (B1) and first floor, KARAOKE box rooms on the second and third floors and love hotels on the fourth, fifth and sixth floors.