Sunday - Rainy
What a day!
I went to bed too late again last night, but got up at 8:45 because I had said that I would! I was up, dressed and ready to go around our planned leaving time of 9:00am. Fumihiko was dressed but was looking for his wallet. I went downstairs with my stuff, and he was still looking for his wallet. He looked in the car, in the clothes he wore yesterday, everywhere. At 10 am he was still looking and we had decided not to go to Tendo today. At 10:30 I suggested that he call the grocery store since that was the last place that he used it. He called and his wallet was there. It had been found outside a dry-cleaner in the opposite direction from the entrance we had gone in.
F drove to the supermarket and retrieved his wallet. Happily, his credit cards and such were still in the wallet, but his cash was gone. So much for the fabled Japanese honesty. We aren’t sure if his wallet fell out of his pants or if he left it on the counter in the store and someone picked it up.
I was glad that his wallet at least had been found, and that his cards were intact. He came back to the house and we both did the same thing. We went back to bed for a few hours!
I got up just after 2 pm and suggested lunch. F agreed and we took ourselves and his mother to Arpeggio, the Japanese restaurant we all like. F had just bought some coupons for the shop last week, so he didn’t have to pay very much real money. We zoomed off in the rain and got a seat in the almost empty restaurant. We were at the end of their lunch service, so there were hardly any customers. F and I had the ten-item meals and K had my usual, Soboro don or ground chicken on rice. It was all very good.
We came back to the house after our late lunch. F and I came upstairs. I got stuck into some crafting and made a couple of little angels. I finished the one I started yesterday and made another one. They are so cute! There will be pictures eventually.
Since we weren’t very hungry for ages, we didn’t bother about dinner for a while. Around 8 I reminded F that we wouldn’t have any choice of places if we didn’t go soon. I suggested either Gusto or Coco Ichibanya, so he chose the latter. It was a good choice. F and I drove there and both had the same thing, the Asian Spice Curry. It’s supposed to be a South Asian curry. I had mine with fried chicken, which I shared a little with F, he had his plain but upped the spice level and the amount of rice. It was good! I really love it and it is being taken off the menu at the end of this month.
We did a little grocery shopping at MaxValu tonight. I got some things for dinner for tomorrow and Tuesday. Tomorrow, the plan is to do pancakes and sausages, on Tuesday probably tacos. We’ll see if I decide to do something else.
We came back to the house (after me checking that F had his wallet!) and put away the groceries. We came upstairs and had a quiet night in.
Tomorrow F is back to work and I’m back to my usual daily stuff. I might make a couple more angels if I have time, and I really should write some Christmas cards.
Come back later if you like and read all about my day if you are interested. Until tomorrow….
2 comments:
That's horrible.
I don't think there is a 'fabled Japanese honesty' to be fair.
It's just more common to have your belongings returned intact, cash and all, than is typical elsewhere. It's just a very common occurrence, commonly experienced enough that Japan has become known for it.
I've had a wallet with everything in it returned in calgary. and a dropped passport returned in Malaysia, but certainly neither of these is going to be what usually happens in Canada or Malaysia.
I've had mostly good experiences in Japan and Canada to be honest. I left my purse on my chair at a restaurant in Disneyland(Tokyo) and when I rushed back 20 minutes later, the waitress had it waiting for me. Whew!
I left my camera in an airport bus in Victoria, BC once, got it back too...
I think there is some kind of law in Japan that states that the finder can claim a percentage of the money in a wallet if they want to, after they turn it in. I've found a couple of wallets and have never asked for money because it just wouldn't feel right to me to benefit from someone else's mishap...sort of a "Do unto others" kind of thing.
I hope that whoever took the money really needed it.
I do think that generally Japanese people are really honest and Canadians are mostly honest! At least I hope so...but there are good and bad people everywhere.
Thanks for visiting again...Comments are going into my spam folder so I missed this one. Sorry! I don't know why.
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