Japan Rentacar (etc.)
I've been to Japan Rentacar several times now, but I've actually nevered rented a car in my whole life. Yes, this is a riddle and one you can solve with more than a little investigation. Go ahead, I've got time.
a hint
do you need another hint?
give up yet?
So, I went out last night with a mixed group of foreign and native homies with the intention of boozing it up at a yakiniku restaurant, that is a korean style bbq where you drink a lot more beer than eat meat. Still, it's tasty and quite entertaining as a group experience, because you have to grill your own food. But the place was packed, so we ended up going to an American style steakhouse instead, and by American I mean a perverse mix of Texas roadhouse, California surfer, and distinctly Japanese cuts of beef. I tried to ask the server what cut the Bronco Billy special was, and his reply, "American, of course." Grr...
Afterwards, we went to a karaoke box for a couple of hours. I'm not going to get into the intricacies of how Japanese karaoke is different (and it is), but suffice it to say, the best deal in town is at the Japan Rentacar, 1500 yen per hour and you pay by room instead of per person. We stuffed 11 people into that little thing.
posted by Nicholas Theisen @ 2:11 AM
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Ah yes, another example of me not understanding anything. Thank you once again, Nicholas.
There wasn't really much of a point, only that the largest local car rental outfit also has rooms for karaoke. *shrug*
Well, I did think it strange that the "other hint" concerning renting a car had a little graphic of some distinctly un-Japanese looking youths sitting at tables with drinks, one of whom has a microphone and with little musical notes floating in the air, indicating - music, I believe. Given the way in which Japanese popular culture in general seems to operate on a whole assemblage of non-sequiturs, however, most of which seem to be bent on associating the least connected, but most pleasant human activities (e.g. karaoke) with expensive, irritating, and mundane ones (e.g. renting a car), I was not able to anticipate that this given far-fetched association was an actual statement of fact. All of which goes to show you - I know nothing, and never will know anything.
Love,
Socrates
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