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Oops - Wrong Directions!

I was asked for directions by someone at Ikebukuro station yesterday.

Mark was a North American guy who wanted to know which side of the station "the statue" was on. I knew exactly what he meant - on the East side of Ikebukuro is a brown statue that reminds me of the painful, contorted figures on display at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

The problem is, he caught me at a bad time.

I had just paid the last instalment of Kim and my resident's tax at the ward office (always love handing over $700 to the government), then hurried to the travel agent to pick up my plane tickets for the flight to Australia, and was hoping to make it home in time to pack a couple more boxes and cart them off to the post office before it closed. I was a bit... distracted.

Sorry for telling you that it is on the West exit, Mark. Really, I hate it when I ask people for directions and they tell me the wrong thing. I know that the distance between the West and East exit is a good 10 minute walk and as a result of my misinformation you probably spent 20 minutes wandering around cursing me. I have lived in this area for two and a half years and should have known better.

Oops. Sorry Mark, wherever you are.