back in Bristol spending an afternoon knitting with my Japanese house-mate - today was a day off from her job in a Japanese restaurant
she'd been out for lunch
I asked her where she went and what she ate
a cafe for sandwiches, I always go and eat sandwiches on my day off - at work it's so much rice
Metalepsis: Twikent.
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Thanks. I have often wondered where restaurant workers eat on their day off. One can eat only so many free Big Macs I suppose.
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