The Least Useful Guide to Fukuoka

A few weeks have passed since I stopped shopping at AEON. I don't like to see people there still considering shopping to be a leisure activity, which gets on my nerves in many ways (imagine  families of five people touching things everywhere and chatting without mask and cutting into your way in your local Target, Tesco or other bigger supermarket). In this challenging time when shopping bacame a kind of  battle to defend one's household, I can't take unnecessary extra stress these people give me. The dislike of getting stressed is stronger than fear of getting infected with the C-virus. 

If I had to be infected, I would like it to happen in more acceptable ways: for example, by eating a nice meal at my favourite restaurant, feeding animals in the zoo, or breathing deeply in museums full of antiques--not by having a 100-yen doughnut at a crowded food court (it is by no means wrong, or rather, I love it in peacetime though). 

Living without AEON is to certain extent inconvenient, to be honest with you. Also, a sense of loss of the shopping points I would have earned has been haunting me. But it is also true that I feel less stressed as I don’t have to come across the “outlaw” families and distressed shop staff pushed onto the frontline without adequate protection and knowledge.