What to rave about today?
A couple of weeks ago, Sarah pointed this out to me and ever since it:s been weirding me out. Around the place there are buildings and on random windows they have stuck on red triangular arrows pointing downwards. Emergency exits, we:ve been told.
But I have a slight problem with this. Many of said emergency exits are a tad too high in the air for me personally to consider leaping from. Of course, not all of them are like that. Quite a few are sensibly placed so you can get onto the balcony roof or whatever. But then of course there are the ones which, were you to make an emergency exit from, would have you plummet ten storeys into the street below, to become a pancake. Literally.
I saw one building in Yokohama yesterday that was probably about 15 storeys high, with an emergency exit on every single floor, arranged so they were all in a line.
Sarah, Kara and I have decided that should we find ourselves in a situation where an emergency exit is necessary we will NOT, repeat NOT, condemn ourselves to a certain death, but instead take our chances with the raging wall of fire threatening to consume us (and/or troll trying to hit us with it:s club, like in Harry Potter).
Okay, rave complete.
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And just for the record, as I type, I:m wearing the blazer.
And just for the record, as I type, you are a raving lunatic.
Let me get this straight missy - you’re in Japan. International traveler, blah, blah, great writer, etc, etc…….And the best you can come up with is a story about fire exits!! :o(
3 words. Life. Get. A.
Not neccessarily in that order.
Your loving Dad.
Wow Laura i thought that Asian people were supposed to be one of the most intelignet races. But after hearing that i am starting to have my doubts. are u completly sure that they are exits and not some kind of contempory artistic craze?
Yeah, well, get used to it. My creative juices are back home.
But don:t you think the exit thing is weird?
I conquer with Laura, but could they be stickers directing the way the window is supposed to be opened?
Just a thought fom someone who filmed the TV ad with the lens cap on and then after realising filmed it with no cassette inside.
These stickers are BIG. and we:ve asked several people, who have all told us the same thing.
You’re making this crap up just to appear interesting!
Pathetic, I say!
How about some thing juicy like, “Oh, by the way - I swam over to North Korea and convinced the Dictator to setp down, open the borders with South Korea and disarm themselves of Nuclear Weapons.”
C’mon Lawsie. At least my BS is totally unbelievable that people know it’s BS>
Cheers.
Dad
xx
Was it BS,
No just joking I knew,
Your Father’s story is far more interesting than you lame exposee on fire exits, you have a lot of explaining to do!!!
David.
Ps- Your missing tonnes in english, hope that you have read Macbeth.
Pps- Apparently youre going to the Social with Chester, he has been telling everyone so, I dont believe it but he does (and unfortunately so do others).
Um David, missing tonnes of school was sort of half the point of coming to Japan for an entire term.
I was actually planning on reading Macbeth on the holidays. Large quantities of the emails Rachel has been sending me don:t actually make sense, due to me not having read the book.
Tell Chester I:m sorry but I don:t think I:ll be able to make it.
And the fire hydrant story has resulted in endless jokes over here amoung the three of us, one of the American teachers and some random Australian guy we met at City Hall.
So there.
Chester is very disappointed.
He:ll get over it.
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