When I was in Japan, Joe, my friend from Toronto, would often jay-walk on the busy streets in Tokyo, which scared me. I sometimes jay-walked in Tokyo too, but only on the narrow and quiet streets, not on the wide and busy streets. One day, after I came to Toronto, another Canadian friend and I crossed a street. As soon as we finished it, this friend of mine asked me if I had known the term, jay-walking. Actually I had not known that there was a special word to express it. Uh-huh! I thought, and remembered Joe. In Toronto, many people seem to take jaywalking for granted. I wondered why and, then, I noticed several things. First of all, except for the downtown area, the length between a traffic light and the next traffic light is longer than that in Tokyo. Secondly, I have seldom seen any pedestrian bridges in Toronto, while there are many of them in Tokyo. Thirdly, the number of cars on the streets is less than that in Tokyo. Now I understand why Joe Jay-walked so often. At the same time, I feel like I have become a Torontonian too since I jaywalk often unconsciously.