w7 we-slept-through-curfew: this time i don't lock the dead out.

[rewriter]

[ slightly sleepy party. aika and kiichi are technically also invited but please let the mods rest. ]

Comments

[allmenare]

[Drinks.]

I guess you are too young for it still.

[huntressinred]

Hey, I'm old enough to get a permit!

I just...haven't, yet.

[allmenare]

Really? But you're nowhere near 20 yet.

[huntressinred]

What? Where do you only get your permit at 20?

Where I'm from, you can get a permit at 16 and a full license at 18.

[ actually apparently in illinois you can get a permit at 15 but oh well i already committed to the 16 thing ]

[allmenare]

In Japan you can't drive at all until you're 20. That's the age for most things, actually. Driving, drinking, smoking, and so on.

[huntressinred]

Weird. Those are like, all different ages in America. And most of them are under 20.

[allmenare]

20 is the age of adulthood in Japan, so it makes sense to give them all of those legal rights and responsibilities all at once. There's actually a day each January when the whole country celebrates for everyone who turned 20 in the last year.

[In his time at least, it changed later.]

[huntressinred]

Huh.

You know what, that actually sounds kinda nice. Adulthood for us is 18, but we still can't drink until years later, and we don't get a holiday about it.

[allmenare]

From what I remember about America, you miss out on a lot of the holidays we have.

[huntressinred]

Yeah?