Re: [tlug] [OT] Pre-Flextime & Automatic Ticket Gates

[Wayne <fedorawayne@example.com>]

On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 00:51 +0900, Lyle H Saxon wrote:
> I used to teach this Aikido Master English and I remember one time he
> told me about a news story he'd just seen where a man got separated
> from his wife and child in Shinjuku Station and was found in tears
> after wandering around the station for hours looking for them.  The
> family was reunited, the Aikido Sensei was amused, and I was mostly
> amused, but I also remembered the fear I had of getting lost in that
> station in my first week here back in '84.
> 

I remember my first trip alone to Shinjuku in 1980. I was supposed to
meet someone somewhere and was told what exit to take. I must have
walked around 3 times ending up at the same spot before I found it :)

Wayne