Petty Criminal

Adding to Right Wing paranoia about gaijin criminals and the increasing foreign crime rate, I got my first Japanese speeding ticket on Monday. We were on the way to the airport to pick up our friends Jenny and Kyle who are here visiting (more on our time with them soon) but I actually got the ticket mere minutes from our house on a road we take very often as a shortcut. I was clocked going 62 km in a 40 km zone. That's about 38 mp/h in a 25 zone. Note that this is on an open country road, not in a metropolitan area. Japanese speed limits are that low and absolutely no one abides by them. The reason I got a ticket is that I didn't find out until Tuesday that this week is Safety Week and the cops are perching themselves all over town to teach rural lowlifes like myself a lesson. One time when studying Japanese and paying attention might have come in handy...

+1 more ticket for them
-15000 yen for me.

I hate Safety.