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Phrase: Fight the clock
Has everyone settled back into their routine of fighting the clock after the summer and Bon holiday vacations?
I’m sure everyone will agree it was hot in more ways than one.
First, we had temperatures in the high 30s, and the mercury even hit 40℃ in Niigata.
Then, we had a super typhoon right at the beginning of the U-turn rush, and it affected the entire country.
Finally, there was F. Miyazaki.
The road rage driver from hell.
This guy enjoyed using his high-end luxury cars as a weapon of mass confusion on the highways from Osaka to Chiba.
He now has a private room with no view where he can’t terrorize anyone anymore.
For a peaceful country, there sure is a lot of fighting going on this summer in Japan.
We’re fighting the heat, super typhoons, and nut jobs on the highways, and now we’re fighting the clock.
The lazy vacation days of early morning walks, naps on the sofa and eating out because you don’t feel like cooking are over.
Fighting the clock is not as much of a fight as it is a race against time.
Everything has a deadline, due date or target completion date.
We, humans, seem to be very good at creating technology to rule our lives.
None of us have true freedom because we live our lives by the clock scheduling our lives to the second.
We’re even fighting the clock when on holiday!
The beginning and end of vacation periods are called the holiday and U-turn rushes, for cripes’ sake!
By the hundreds of thousands, people line up at airports, bus terminals, train stations, and ferry ports to catch their rides on time.
Whether on vacation or working, we’re always fighting the clock.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 72.
The higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100, the easier the passage is to read.