The day after tomorrow is Friday, March 14th,
and I have some unavoidable business, so I'll be taking the day off.
I apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your understanding.
The windows in the basement level corridor connecting Umeda's Osaka Station Front Building 1 and Building 2,
and connecting Building 2 and Building 3,
look exactly like Zeon to me.
Back in October last year, I had early morning business heading to Moriyama Station in Shiga Prefecture.
The image above is Kuritsu Station, which I passed through beforehand.
According to the image metadata, it was 5:53 AM.
Kuritsu is also famous for being home to the JRA Training Center (a thoroughbred racehorse training facility),
and at Kuritsu Station's bike parking area
the infamous kid mascot "Tobi-dashi Bouya" (Jumping Out Boy)
is riding a horse and warning people to watch out.
By the way, this Jumping Out Boy character apparently originated in Shiga Prefecture.
On the Isle of Man in the UK, famous for its public road motorcycle races,
there's a food truck called Hawkins BBQ
that operates like a seaside snack stand,
selling hamburgers, tacos,
fish and chips, and the like.
Customers who took out food would occasionally get their meals stolen by seagulls,
and when they reported such incidents, staff used to remake the same menu item for free.
But they discontinued that practice and instead introduced a service called "seagull insurance."
With this insurance, if you pay an extra pound at checkout,
you'll get your food remade for free if seagulls steal it.
The pound paid for the insurance is donated to a Manx nature conservation organization,
so even if you don't end up needing it, many people might pay it just to be able to donate.
When I bought a Niner frame, I was even recommended to purchase
"elephant insurance" from a completely unrelated source.
This supposedly covers cases where privately-owned elephants (do they even exist in Japan?)
or elephants that escape from zoos
damage your bicycle. For example, if you got kicked by a giraffe,
that wouldn't be covered—it's a pretty narrowly-scoped insurance.
But the idea that in Japan my bicycle would get trampled by an elephant or
something like that happening seemed
AHHHHHHHHH!
It turned out to be just a gentle step, so I got off without incident.
By the way, I didn't end up purchasing the elephant insurance.
and I have some unavoidable business, so I'll be taking the day off.
I apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your understanding.
The windows in the basement level corridor connecting Umeda's Osaka Station Front Building 1 and Building 2,
and connecting Building 2 and Building 3,
look exactly like Zeon to me.
Back in October last year, I had early morning business heading to Moriyama Station in Shiga Prefecture.
The image above is Kuritsu Station, which I passed through beforehand.
According to the image metadata, it was 5:53 AM.
Kuritsu is also famous for being home to the JRA Training Center (a thoroughbred racehorse training facility),
and at Kuritsu Station's bike parking area
the infamous kid mascot "Tobi-dashi Bouya" (Jumping Out Boy)
is riding a horse and warning people to watch out.
By the way, this Jumping Out Boy character apparently originated in Shiga Prefecture.
On the Isle of Man in the UK, famous for its public road motorcycle races,
there's a food truck called Hawkins BBQ
that operates like a seaside snack stand,
selling hamburgers, tacos,
fish and chips, and the like.
Customers who took out food would occasionally get their meals stolen by seagulls,
and when they reported such incidents, staff used to remake the same menu item for free.
But they discontinued that practice and instead introduced a service called "seagull insurance."
With this insurance, if you pay an extra pound at checkout,
you'll get your food remade for free if seagulls steal it.
The pound paid for the insurance is donated to a Manx nature conservation organization,
so even if you don't end up needing it, many people might pay it just to be able to donate.
When I bought a Niner frame, I was even recommended to purchase
"elephant insurance" from a completely unrelated source.
This supposedly covers cases where privately-owned elephants (do they even exist in Japan?)
or elephants that escape from zoos
damage your bicycle. For example, if you got kicked by a giraffe,
that wouldn't be covered—it's a pretty narrowly-scoped insurance.
But the idea that in Japan my bicycle would get trampled by an elephant or
something like that happening seemed
AHHHHHHHHH!
It turned out to be just a gentle step, so I got off without incident.
By the way, I didn't end up purchasing the elephant insurance.