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Quick Change.
Jun. 30th, 2008 01:03 pmAfter the madness of the KCP orientation/placement test, a small group of friends and I made our way out toward Shinjuku station for lunch and a sightseeing tour. I showed them some of the major points along Shinjuku-dori. Not much has changed in a year, or if it has the changes have been either minor enough to escape my notice or to things that I never paid attention to in the first place.
We parted ways after wandering through the Kinokuniya bookstore, and I made my way back to Nakameguro. I wanted to look for some more kitchenware, and stop back at the 100-yen store for more of those funny notebooks. I figured if nothing else that they’d make a neat gag gift.
I lucked out in a store along the main Nakameguro drag that I hadn’t noticed yesterday. I found a small pot and small pan for about $8.00 total--a pretty good deal. Then I proceeded down the street for the 100-yen store. But somehow I walked past it. I didn’t see how that was possible, but I turned around anyway and walked back.
No 100-yen store. Just the place I had just discovered for the first time again.
So I walked across the street and did the circuit again, and as I did I realized that the store I’d just discovered had in fact been the 100-yen store yesterday.
No joke.
Yesterday, the store in which I just bought a pot and pan--and which carries assorted household goods at varying inexpensive prices--was a nothing over 100-yen store. It had a totally different layout, right down to the placement of the cash register, but I kid you not it was the same place. As I reflect on my shopping experience there, I recall that I saw a number of hand-written signs that stated the store was closing at 5pm. I guess they meant for good.
Either that or the powers that be observed my discontent over not being able to find a pot and pan in the store and magically transformed the place into a shop that sold the exact items I was looking for.
Hey, it could happen.
Anyway, no more Rainbow notebooks for me. But at least I can cook dinner tonight.
We parted ways after wandering through the Kinokuniya bookstore, and I made my way back to Nakameguro. I wanted to look for some more kitchenware, and stop back at the 100-yen store for more of those funny notebooks. I figured if nothing else that they’d make a neat gag gift.
I lucked out in a store along the main Nakameguro drag that I hadn’t noticed yesterday. I found a small pot and small pan for about $8.00 total--a pretty good deal. Then I proceeded down the street for the 100-yen store. But somehow I walked past it. I didn’t see how that was possible, but I turned around anyway and walked back.
No 100-yen store. Just the place I had just discovered for the first time again.
So I walked across the street and did the circuit again, and as I did I realized that the store I’d just discovered had in fact been the 100-yen store yesterday.
No joke.
Yesterday, the store in which I just bought a pot and pan--and which carries assorted household goods at varying inexpensive prices--was a nothing over 100-yen store. It had a totally different layout, right down to the placement of the cash register, but I kid you not it was the same place. As I reflect on my shopping experience there, I recall that I saw a number of hand-written signs that stated the store was closing at 5pm. I guess they meant for good.
Either that or the powers that be observed my discontent over not being able to find a pot and pan in the store and magically transformed the place into a shop that sold the exact items I was looking for.
Hey, it could happen.
Anyway, no more Rainbow notebooks for me. But at least I can cook dinner tonight.
