Guess the city

1. The fire marshall is on a leave of abscence: when leaving an appartment building, you need a key to open the front door from the inside.
2. A 'California stop' (a rolling stop) has a whole new definition.
   
3. Elevators have two sliding doors
4. A favorite picnic and bbq place is along the freeway from the international airport to downtown.
5. Tony Soprano is making a killing: trash is picked up daily at night
6. Webvan should have taken a lesson and focus on one core business: Ice cream is delivered to your dinner table
7. Carseats are for losers (baby though talk)
8. My Peugeot 504 just reached 3 million kilometers and shows no sign of slowing down. Headlights have a '1/2 on' setting.
9. A mullet (aka Bundesliga) haircut is in.
10. The amount of cellular phones is up. Cellulitis is down.
    
11. Showing skin has never been out.
    

Just go to 7-Eleven

Around the corner from where we live is one of the little china town centers [see also Chinese 101 - not thank you]. It is a place where all the commercial places are Asian. Signs are Asian. The grocery store is Asian. The restaurants are Asian. The beauty salons are Asian. You can find a lot of good food there, and get a cheap haircut at any day of the year. Even on Christmas or New Year. On Saturday, my wife went by the hair and beauty salon, one of the many there, to ask if they do eyebrow waxing. The lady replied: "Oh-no, no waxing. Go to 7-eleven for waxing!" Remind me not to enter that little backroom at 7-eleven.


[Translation for tourists: 7-eleven is the little convenience store, open almost 24 hours, which you find throughout the US at many corners. They will sell you among other things: toilet paper, stale 12 hours old coffee, donuts, the newspaper, lottery tickets, icecream, beer (and aspirin). It is similar to a more general purpose 'gazettenwinkel' in Belgium, or the store you find in every village with the old lady selling from candy to screwdrivers.]