Well hello there lovelies. Wonderful to see you on this fair Monday. Let's just say it's time to take time and pitch you a little blog into the blogosphere. That is, just an honorable mention today. None of these million word posts.
So today I arrived in Kyoto(again) with even more bags. My friends had been graciously holding them for me until my return and thus with my return also comes making many trips to my old humble abode and bringing them to my new rich fancy abode that thinks it's better than you (and your stupid abode). Well upon arriving at the train station I waited in line for an unsuspecting cab driver. The man seemed nice enough as he put my bags in the car, undeserving of my disturbance at least.
Well we go down the road and have the average exchange, I tell him it's in this direction and when he get's to where "this" is then I tell him further specifics. Well where I'm staying is next to some train tracks( just heard the loud ass thing fly by as I was typing this), so actually when you cross the train tracks on the way to my place of staying you should take a super immediate left. Well it was Japanese and the guy was driving too fast so I didn't tell him to turn in time and quickly directed the cab driver instead to the following left which was right after the left he should have taken had he not been such a speedy driver(his fault!). Well so what! I didn't know that left was so incredibly narrow so that three people couldn't walk shoulder to shoulder down the street!
He was like uhh...here?? I, without really thinking, said yeah here! He just went on like uh well okay and just started down the road. He went slow, and slowed up a lot when he continued as there was a really tight ledge and a phone pole to shimmy through. To be fair, I'd never really been down this road so I had no clue what to expect....well...other than a normal road like all other lefts in the entire city thanks Japan. So he slowly squeezed through that tight spot then moved on a bit to a fork in the road brave man he was. Well left again would get us back to the street we missed, so I was like okay left! I said "hidari"(left in Japanese). But you see this fork was like....a real fork hahaha. The individual prongs of the fork are not as wide as the handle of the fork which lead to the prongs. In other word, the road got even narrower! (why is it there in the first place????) The cab driver said "Hidari??........Muri!(the word impossible in Japanese)" then followed that up with "BA KU!"(not sure if that was the English word or if Japanese actually steals that word from the word "back" in English like Japanese does with so so many other words). So the cab driver, fed up with this direction enough to break his politeness(which is huge huge huge in Japan) and actually exclaim "impossible!" when I told him to do something, backed up very carefully. In fact, it took us a good 5 - 10 minutes to back out of that street (hard to even go forward into) because of the phone pole and the ledge.
I was just wondering what this cab driver was thinking. Like grrr whyyy why why did I pick up this foreigner and who is this guy telling me to turn into this freaking alley way wtf......I actually had to hold back an extremely strong urge to burst out laughing as I was imagining what he must be thinking and as he tried several times to back out of the road between a phone pole and ledge. After that he just said okay great so that'll be 2600 yen and just dropped me off right there hahaha. He was too turned around to even take me the rest of the way there. He probably just drove straight home after that and didn't even finish his shift. Anyways I was only 5 min from my place so I just walked home. Cab drivers beware!! Peace wut!
So today I arrived in Kyoto(again) with even more bags. My friends had been graciously holding them for me until my return and thus with my return also comes making many trips to my old humble abode and bringing them to my new rich fancy abode that thinks it's better than you (and your stupid abode). Well upon arriving at the train station I waited in line for an unsuspecting cab driver. The man seemed nice enough as he put my bags in the car, undeserving of my disturbance at least.
Well we go down the road and have the average exchange, I tell him it's in this direction and when he get's to where "this" is then I tell him further specifics. Well where I'm staying is next to some train tracks( just heard the loud ass thing fly by as I was typing this), so actually when you cross the train tracks on the way to my place of staying you should take a super immediate left. Well it was Japanese and the guy was driving too fast so I didn't tell him to turn in time and quickly directed the cab driver instead to the following left which was right after the left he should have taken had he not been such a speedy driver(his fault!). Well so what! I didn't know that left was so incredibly narrow so that three people couldn't walk shoulder to shoulder down the street!
He was like uhh...here?? I, without really thinking, said yeah here! He just went on like uh well okay and just started down the road. He went slow, and slowed up a lot when he continued as there was a really tight ledge and a phone pole to shimmy through. To be fair, I'd never really been down this road so I had no clue what to expect....well...other than a normal road like all other lefts in the entire city thanks Japan. So he slowly squeezed through that tight spot then moved on a bit to a fork in the road brave man he was. Well left again would get us back to the street we missed, so I was like okay left! I said "hidari"(left in Japanese). But you see this fork was like....a real fork hahaha. The individual prongs of the fork are not as wide as the handle of the fork which lead to the prongs. In other word, the road got even narrower! (why is it there in the first place????) The cab driver said "Hidari??........Muri!(the word impossible in Japanese)" then followed that up with "BA KU!"(not sure if that was the English word or if Japanese actually steals that word from the word "back" in English like Japanese does with so so many other words). So the cab driver, fed up with this direction enough to break his politeness(which is huge huge huge in Japan) and actually exclaim "impossible!" when I told him to do something, backed up very carefully. In fact, it took us a good 5 - 10 minutes to back out of that street (hard to even go forward into) because of the phone pole and the ledge.
I was just wondering what this cab driver was thinking. Like grrr whyyy why why did I pick up this foreigner and who is this guy telling me to turn into this freaking alley way wtf......I actually had to hold back an extremely strong urge to burst out laughing as I was imagining what he must be thinking and as he tried several times to back out of the road between a phone pole and ledge. After that he just said okay great so that'll be 2600 yen and just dropped me off right there hahaha. He was too turned around to even take me the rest of the way there. He probably just drove straight home after that and didn't even finish his shift. Anyways I was only 5 min from my place so I just walked home. Cab drivers beware!! Peace wut!
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