Odds and Ends

Here's a few things that have happened over the last week that didn't really merit a post of their own but might proving interesting:

Apparently the local police's new hobby is stopping gaijin bicyclists and asking to see their registration to prove that the bike isn't stolen. I've been stopped twice, one guy upstairs has been stopped three times. One time he wasn't carrying his wallet with his bike's registration card and got arrested (I'm not sure of all the details on the situation). Needless to say I've been very careful about remembering my wallet lately.

Yesterday, riding my bike to school, I passed a bright orange Lambroghini stuck in traffic. As traffic spurted and clogged, we kept passing each other. In the end I proved to be faster. It gave me great amusement to outpace a high performance sports car that cost more than my parent's house on my rusty granny bike.

While in a shop today, they were playing Weird Al's new single, White and Nerdy. Likely, I was the only person in the store that understood the lyrics. I thought it was pretty funny.