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It’s even more magical with an Apple Watch, since they have official integration with the Suica cards. No need to use a charge machine to top up your card, you can do it right from your Apple Watch, which also means no cash is needed (death to physical currency!).
Yes, I knew that, but unfortunately you’re going to be the only person not following convention, and 1.5 million commuters are going to politely mow over you if you try standing on the wrong side of the escalator.
I think the only advice I would give someone coming to Japan is just don’t get in the way. There is a flow to the way things move. For example, don’t stand right in front of the train or elevator doors waiting for them to open to get on, wait to the side and let the people in/on out first. You will see how people…
A note on the escalator thing - Osaka is completely the opposite. You stand on the right and people climb on the left. Confusing, right?
Every heard of the City Museum in St. Louis?
For public transportation, the available apps help cut down on transport time. My husband and I used Hyperdia in Japan and it was great. There were a few areas we went to, even within Tokyo, that required multiple line changes. It helps as you spend a significant amount of time every day in transit.
You missed my favorite thing about the Tokyo subway that makes it easier to use - numbered stops. You don’t need to know the name of the last stop in either direction to figure out which train to get on, you only need to know whether it is an increasing or decreasing number. Check it out, numbers increase in one…
The reason is so my son can meet his grandparents. It’s June, not December. I am not going on “holiday”, I am going on vacation, you fucking wanker. I am not sure where your parents went wrong, but taking you on an airplane wasn’t it. Connard.
Well, we don’t do oxymorons, and we also don’t do automatics, unless we’ve suddenly become too lazy or handicapped to do so. I’ve been driving a manual for 15 years now in the worst traffic jams, weather, cities, cars etc. I’ve only ever bought 2 “automatic” vehicles of the 15+ cars I’ve owned so far, and one of them…
The real story is wages have been flat for well over a decade. Housing, healthcare, transportation, education have all gone up faster than inflation in the past 10-20 years, but minimum wage has been $7.25 for a decade. Even with record-low unemployment, employers loathe to raise wages. They’d rather leave work on the…
Plane ticket to Japan. Runner up would be one to London. After that is one to Luxembourg....actually they’re all pretty much plane tickets.
Renters occupied my house before I purchased it about six years ago, and under no obligation to keep the new owner (me) happy, they left the place a mess.
While cleaning the kitchen, I found a small ziplock bag with a half-smoked joint in it in the crisper, and a note:
We bought a used off-lease 2013 Fiat 500e for $7,100 out the door. In two years, we’ve driven 46K miles on it, saving 1,703 gallons of gasoline compared to the Lexus Rx400h it replaced as a commuter/errand car. The car has paid for itself in terms of fuel and toll-road savings. Further, it saved my wife about 40…
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Where did I advocate for the ban of plastic straws? I said they suck and they’re wasteful. Most people shouldn’t use plastic straws.
Where did I advocate for the ban of plastic straws? I said they suck and they’re wasteful. Most people shouldn’t use…
I work at a university where the faculty are only paid August-May. They’re agitating to change that and have collected quite a store of evidence that the human brain is not wired to budget appropriately under these circumstances.
When I wanted to upgrade my card with my credit union, they had to raise my credit limit as well. I had to fill out a whole new application to approve the $2K credit limit raise and THEN they could give me the new card (and this is after THEY were the ones to send me a letter stating that I was eligible for the new…