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found a suica card today

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2020.08.08

I found Suica card with a recent date on the street. The cards are the prepaid cash cards used for transit systems but also for all manner of retail and online shopping. I turned the card in at the local police box and they asked if I wanted to put my name down for a reward. After turning that down, Mari told me they ask because sometimes those cards are loaded with millions of yen!

Millions of yen (tens of thousands of dollars) on a card you can (and do) drop?

rand()m quote

... I'll let you in on a secret. Big people are exactly the same as little people. They're selfish, squabbling children whose motivations are jealousy and greed. No one becomes big when the hit adulthood. They just become better at hiding how small they are.

—Jonathan Rosenberg