I knew my shopping would get me into trouble one day. We're leaving Kyoto to go back to Tokyo. We got to the station early and had time to kill. Kyoto Station has a shopping center, like most of the train stations here. I'd read on someone's blog that there is a yarn store in the station and decided to find it. It was 11:30. Our train was scheduled to leave at 12:09. Clay told me to go ahead and kill the time finding the yarn store. I almost didn't go, but decided to give it a shot. I was wandering around looking for the yarn store and nearly gave up, when I turned a corner and there it was. I must have smelled the yarn or something because I randomly chose to turn that corner and double back. It was a small shop and I gave myself 5 minutes to pick something out and get the hell out of there. I stuck to my 5 minute limit picking a couple of unusual yarns and some old favorites (Noro). There was a woman ahead of me at the register, but she was taking a long time picking out some thread. Finally another sales person notices me and starts tallying up my purchases. She walked around the store looking at what I bought and writing it all down. Damn, this is gonna take forever. It's 10 minutes to 12. I gotta get outta here. Finally she was done. She rung me up and I ran all the way back to meet Clay. We made the train just in time. Talk about stress!