Tokyo Nugget #12: What’s lost will come back

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Tokyo Nugget #12: What’s lost will come back

Posted on 25 March 2009
Tags: Tokyo Nuggets

What a treat: I have not one but two Tokyo Nuggets in the space of a week…

On a very crazy windy Friday night last week, the weather was like this:

There was no rain but there were times I had to stop in my tracks to fight against the fierce gusts along Aoyama-dori.

I was on my way to the post office and one of my parcels got blown away by a sudden, angry whip. Some of my boxes scattered onto the road and I quickly plucked them back, but that lone one got away and it was not anywhere I could see.

I was upset and had to write it off as a loss but do you know that an old Japanese guy found it? He rang me the next morning to tell me he had it and would drop it off at the post office for me. I was so relieved and couldn’t thank him enough.

I wouldn’t say this is a terribly unique story as the honesty and civility of the Japanese are their famous traits. They say, you never really lose your wallet in Japan. But this is my first time losing something and getting it back — all in one piece, so I totally basked in it.

Photo: Akumach

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