From January 8 to March 21, Tokyo was under its second state of emergency, which, just like the first one, pressed establishments serving alcohol into calling last orders at 7pm. It was a mostly observed request that resulted in fewer people going out drinking, and perhaps inevitably, more people just drinking early. Either way though, that freedom was missed, and the man below missed it so much that it rather ironically resulted in a temporarily enforced lockdown all his own making.
A restrictive measure that did lift after a little while, but just like the aforementioned rule on serving times that has been reintroduced again this week, the poor fella was forced into a further lockdown shortly afterwards.
Sean says
I hope he got home safely. Poor guy could only make it a couple of meters!
Lee says
Yeah, at that rate it would have been a long and likely very painful journey back!
Ron says
Damn, I’m leaving those Black Highballs alone!!
Lee says
I know eh? They look so appealing on the posters too!
cdilla says
At first I thought it remarkable to catch him twice wearing exactly the same gear. But then I thought back to my university days when you would have caught me outside the same establishments week after week wearing the same gear 🙂
A nice brace of photographs documenting the unexpected accented by the unusual times.
Oh, one more thing. Mrs Cdilla has a twice weekly covid test – being a teacher – and Wednesday is one of her days. Your mid-week posts are always on Wednesdays – so she was all set to take the test, before I realized what had happened 🙂
Lee says
Cheers. And yeah, I was the same. In fact, if the truth be known, I’m probably not all that different even now.
That’s funny. Glad you realised in time. Even though all the days are sort of blurring into one here, and my mind is occupied with so much other stuff, after years of regular, Monday, Wednesday and Friday updates, this new schedule still feels very strange.
john says
That’s one way to keep your shutters clean! It reminds me of hearing about a guy who kept his keyboard in its plastic bag.
Lee says
And that fella reminds me of those people who keep the plastic on new sofas.
john says
might as well face it .. they’re addicted to crisps?