Late Night Shopping

At the moment, we only have one car! 

Mikey's car is falling to pieces. He thought about taking it in for the MOT (jidohsa kensa torokusedio, usually contracted to shaken in Japanese), but realized that it wouldn't pass and would cost a lot to fix everything.  It's illegal to drive a car without an up-to-date shaken sticker on your car, so he hasn't been driving it for a couple of months now!

We are managing alright, David and Mikey have to coordinate their schedules. One problem is that I can't go shopping as often as I would like. David usually picks up what we need on the way home from work. That helps a lot, but his shopping is more frozen foods; I prefer more fresh foods, fruits, and vegetables.

Yesterday evening, I was looking in the freezer for something to do for today's lunch. I thought I had another pack of chicken left, but there was nothing, except bread and French fries!

Last night, David didn't have work, so I thought that we could shop this morning, but Mikey needed the car for the day!

I suggested going to the 24-hour supermarket in the morning, at about 6am. But David decided to go at midnight!

It felt very strange to go shopping at that time.

Two things surprised me!

First, the store was rather busy!  It was about 12:30am when we got there. I thought we would be the only ones shopping, but there were a lot of customers!

Second, there was still a good choice of vegetables and meat.

We got home just after 1am. As we pulled up to the house, I asked David for the house key. He said that I had it, but I remembered him locking the door.

When we got to the front door, we found that the key was still in the lock!

The key is still in the lock

I guess Japan, at least in the countryside, is still safe!