DearScotty

Having used up the last of the Kleenex, I made a special trip to the grocery store for some good old TP. I guess this is my chance to tell you about Super Daiei! It must be one of the worst grocery stores in Japan. It’s a florescent oasis of bad deals and limited selection. While listening to a radio blast this week’s specials, you can buy a few chopped up pineapple hunks for three bucks, or a package of wilted strawberries for ten. If you’re also in the summer fruit mood you can buy cantaloupes for twenty dollars (have been around 40 dollars at other stores). We also have apples for nearly 2 bucks a pop and that, well, completes the fruit section at my store. Anyways, I needed toilet paper but the only option is a 24 pack tower of toilet paper. It’s very huge and isn’t something you want to be seen holding while trying to keep your balance on your bicycle. Also just purchasing it without other items makes you feel a bit strange and I didn’t want to have to pretend to anyone that I was merely purchasing this mass of tp so I could use the brown tubes for a science project.

So, I went grocery shopping! Problem was that I had already made a trip yesterday (I forgot the TP, the Kleenex was working fine). So, what does one do when they don’t actually need anything? My basket included: chocolate covered cream puffs, 4 bottles of Fantastic Five Fanta, Grape Hi-chew, cheese and pizza sauce, curry, potato chips and beer. I’m pretty sure I made my case a little more difficult to explain.

Now I’ve got mounds of junk food piled on top of other fat filled care packages and I have an episode of Lost waiting for me. I don’t really feel like putting the ton of TP away so it’ll have to double for a temporary pillow. (Locke sure is badass these days.)

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