While sitting on my bike at a pedestrian crosswalk, waiting for the little man to go from red man standing patiently at attention to change to the happy green man in mid-stride, I had an experience I have had many times in the past. A pedestrian came up... ...full story at So-Called Japanese Life
from So-Called Japanese Life on Wed, Feb 06 2008
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