Pan wrote in message news:<01s2r0djim8a3fsoc7hd43dn4mitshjg58@4ax.com>...
> On 28 Nov 2004 15:51:09 -0800, goodgutgut@yahoo.com (ggg) wrote:
>
> [snip]
> >Does anyone ever take off their shoes when required but not leave
> >them with the rest of the shoes? I know that HK tourists take them in
> >Thailand to avoid theft and I have an article about Burma where the
> >girls take off their shoes at temple but carry their shoes along.
> [snip]
>
> I'm guessing that it's very unlikely your shoes would be stolen in
> Japan, if that's a concern, but I don't have recent experience in
I know what you mean about not worrying based on likelihood.
My concern (and I have no immediate plans to go just that I like to
mull) is not whether it's likely to happen but is it going to be
backlash free to take precautions.
Whether life would be easier if I just gave in might affect my
behavior. I want to know if I would put anyone's nose out of joint.
My question is not whether does anyone want my undesirable shoes but
why wouldn't my shoes be vulnerable unattended. (And I have no idea
where I would go that I would have to take off my shoes. I guess maybe
a ryokan but that opens an even bigger can of worms re security that
I'll spare the group for now.) Nice law abiding people cannot control
oddballs.
Is bicycle theft not a problem in Japan? And is shoplifting an
unheard of problem? Those are thefts related to property left out in
the open. I wouldn't discuss this or explain when I put my shoes
into my own ziploc and into my own bag but I would say simply if
prodded that this makes me comfortable (happy even.) I guess if I'm
not breaking any laws, locals will probably just let me go my ignorant
way.
I wonder if it's common for fastidious people in Japan to go with the
flow intstead of going with what their sense of things. Culturally,
HK people wouldn't go for anything just because it's the rule if they
think it's stupid and or possibly dirty; ombudsman discoveries of
dirtiness are really popular in Chinese news and in culture. (But
I've eaten from the communal Korean boiling pot even though I was
raised against that behavior because I was happy to be invited to dip
a spoon in.)
I'm not fastidious at all but I don't like to check my coat either.
> Japan. Would anyone disagree?
>
> Michael
>
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