(2004-08-04)"Remember," said Barbara Chase, "In the word smells, the 'l' is just the extra letter in 'mess.'"  She was referring to Japanese streetcars, where people carry a lot of things that cause smells, especially fish.  I had left some of my belongings, including a 13-inch black-and-white TV, on such a streetcar, and I was desperate to get them back.  A Japanese man was calling the transit "Lost and Found" for me to see if it had turned up.  The Japanese name was used in the dream, but it didn't sound exactly Japanese.  When a group of female students arrived, I told them about it, using the term, and they didn't recognize it.  The man came back and told me that my belongings had not been found, and my hope of retrieving them was fading fast when suddenly I realized that the students had come on the same streetcar that I had, and if they knew about how long it took that streetcar to follow its itinerary and return to that stop, I could wait for it and get on and check for myself to see if the stuff was still there.  They weren't very sure about the time, though; they just giggled a lot.