Year-end charity campaign

Some neighborhood associations correct the money for the year-end charity campaign (歳末助け合い, saimatsu tasukeai) around this time of the season in Japan. They distribute an envelop to each house of the area and you can put whatever the amount of the money in the envelop.
Sometime later, the person who is in charge of correcting the envelop come to ask the envelop your donation in it.

The envelop said the minimum amount of the donation is 500 yen, and that's how much the most of people donate. Yet, I put 1,000 yen this time. When the person who is in charge of correcting the envelop see inside the envelop to write the receipt, she was surprised and said:

Don't Drive and INGRESS

INGRESS is an interesting smartphone game and I have been playing months now. What is INGRESS? Here's a wiki. Ingress (game) via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(game) Players have to move around their towns for this game, so some players walk, another players use their bikes, and others drive. But you have to be very careful when you play this game and drive your car at the same time. When you get caught by watching smartphone while your are driving, you will get 1 penalty point on your driver's license and also the ticket cost you 6,000 yen. How do I know about it?

[PolitiC@Nippon] Ryukougo Taisho 2016: Japan’s Most Vogue Words of the Year

Ryukougo Taisho is one of the unique events of Japan. In the end of the year, they choose the buzzing words that everyone is using them in common during the year from TV shows, dramas, news, so on. (Sometime, it's not really used in common, but they pick those words anyway.) Last year, they chose some words from from politic, such as Abe Seiji wo Yurasanai (or "We won't tolerate Abe's politics") SEALDs, the "youth (well, there are some young folks but mostly old folks in their 60s and 70s) group" going against to Abe's politics) and so on. Ref: [Ryukougo Taisho 2015: Japan's Most Vogue Words of the Year] http://www.mtv81.com/features/specials/ryukougo-taisho-2015-japans-most-vogue-words-of-the-year/ This year, one of the words they choose is:

At a theater

While I was watching the play at the theater, I suddenly said 　　　 then, I woke up. Yes, I was talking in my sleep. The person who was sitting next me was surprised and looking at me. So, I said her Then, I went back to sleep.

Ito Shunsuke

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