Current mood:	cold
Current music:	Layo & Bushwacka

Rain rain go away....
There is rain and there is rain. Today's to too cold for my liking. You know that in Tokyo you have to leave your umbrella at the door of bars and restaurants and shops? Because dripping inside would be a terrible breach of courtesy. Of course, not carrying an umbrella and walking in dripping is also frowned upon. But I do miss being able to walk out of a shop and just grabbing one of the identical 300Y umbrellas from the little rack. And the weird thing is the system works (I couldn't believe for ages until I saw for myself). If it's not raining people just leave the umbrellas there and there are enough in circulation so that you can almost always find one should it start to rain. All in all a thoroughly civilised system. In my country there would be people going around taking all the umbrellas and reselling them. Though getting people to leave their umbrellas outside would also be damn near impossible. Strange to think how there are many civilised things we never dream of because we aren't exposed to them. Of course, now I have wanderlust again - where was that emigration form?