Rice is done ... and so is the neighbour
In Kawazoe, Saga Prefecture, Japan, a 48-year-old homeowner received a shock when he found a rice cooker plugged into an exterior outlet on his house. He immediately called the police and reported a meal was being prepared in his yard without his consent. Just as police arrived, the victim's 63-year-old neighbour turned up to check on his rice. Officers then arrested the man for theft, with only a few more minutes until the rice was finished. Police later learned that the suspect's electricity had been shut off after he failed to pay his utility bills, and he had begun using other homes' power outlets to do his cooking. (Rocketnews24.com)
Guess who was wearing the trousers in the 80s
"I was sent home from a large multinational computer company in the mid-1980s for wearing trousers," writes a female reader. "Short skirts were okay, though, and smoking 20 a day at your desk was fine. We wore a suit jacket always and had a special cupboard to hang it, and every man wore a tie. We were also advised in the company manual to not wear vivid eye shadow or jangly jewellery and rotund men were advised not to wear double-breasted suits. Times change. Same company and you can wear shorts, T-shirts and thongs on dress-down Fridays, and I have seen people wearing Ugg boots to work with leggings. Kind of makes me long for the old days, without the smoking."
It would be sweet if they didn't assume
