This afternoon, I was biking to a local grocery store and riding quite slowly down the street. There was an old (Japanese) man, probably in his 60's, walking down the side along the left. To give him a buffer, I pulled further to the right and slowed down... ...full story at So-Called Japanese Life
from So-Called Japanese Life on Wed, Feb 20 2008
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