Posted on 06/11/2017 10:54:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The difference that made such an impression on me is the vending machine in Japan was on a city street. Anyone could access it, even a kid. The difference between our society and Japan was that no kid would do it over there.
If you were jones-ing for a burger that’s understandable. But if you’d gotten a bento box of Japanese food it would have saved you about twenty of that twenty five dollars. Eating like the locals saves money everywhere, and in my experience also reduces the chances of getting food poisoning. Not so much in Japan since they’re so obsessive about cleanliness and such perfectionists, but western style foods in Asia, especially in the hotels, can be amoebic dysentery playgrounds. Stick with what the locals eat and you’ll save your colon and a fortune.
Same in CT, I often get produce in my neighborhood that way. I doubt theft is a major problem. If anything, most people probably overpay because they don’t have exact change.
I like vending machines and wish we had more of them and I’m not talking soda and snacks.
When I was in the Marines, we were able to commandeer a used Coke machine for our barracks that we retrofitted for beer cans. The officers never noticed or decided not to. But we were discreet. We still kept the buttons the same. So the Coke button would deliver a Budweiser and the Sprite button would yield a Miller, etc. We would use the profits to have barbecues on weekends. We had some good barbecues.
A good officer knows what to see and what not to see.
NOT THE FARBMAN!!!!
“Of course, this is an area where you still might wake up to find someone *donated* an overabundance of zucchini to you, stacking it by your mailbox.”
Two feet long and as thick as a baseball bat. I hate when that happens!
As I remember young kids can walk up to one that sells beer.
My folks and I lived in Sagamihara and Yokohama in the 1950s.
There were no vending machines. There were open air “Mom and Pop” grocery stores selling dryed fish, bags of rice and big bottles of Kikkoman. Mom and Pop and their kids lived in the back room of the store.
9. No embarrassment when buying used panties.
You are still thinking of them as "food".
At that size they are "sports equipment".
Zucchini toss, zucchini ball, zucchini boats... the fun is endless.
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