妻：渋滞30キロですって。これでは家に着くのは夜中ね。
夫：この車の列を見ていると、うんざりするよ。電車にすればよかったね。
Unzari suru
(Koosoku-dooro de)
Tsuma: Juutai 30 kiro desutte. Kore dewa ie ni tsuku no wa yonakane.
Otto: Kono kuruma no retsu wo mite iru to, unzari suru yo. Densha ni sureba yokatta ne.
(On the expressway)
Wife: It says this traffic jam goes on for 30 kilometers. We won't be home until late at night this way.
Husband: Just looking at this line of cars makes me sick. We should have taken the train, shouldn't we?
Unzari sum means to be fed up or sick of something, to have had enough and be unable to take any more.
Today is the last day of Golden Week. How did you spend the vacation? I wouldn't be surprised if there are some readers who after going out in their cars felt michi ga konde ite unzari shite shimatta (the roads were so packed they got really fed up).
The same thing happened to me coming back from Yatsuga-take, Nagano Prefecture. We got on the expressway at Kobuchi-zawa at 5 p.m. and didn't get back home to Tokyo until after midnight.
The return journey, which usually takes only two hours, took all of seven hours. When we got home my daughter, who had been driving, said she was exhausted. I don't blame her after driving for seven hours non-stop.
The only time company employees can take a proper vacation is during the Bon festival in August, New Year's or Golden Week. Even though they know it's going to be crowded, they take to the roads anyway. Unzari suru to wakatte wa iru no desu ga, yahari ie ni iru yori wa to omotte.... (I know I'm going to get sick of it, but when I think that the alternative is staying at home....) Everybody who goes away in Golden Week says the same thing.
A friend of mine who recently went to see the movie Schindler's List told me that there was such a long line of people waiting outside the theater, gyooretsu wo mita dake de unzari shite, miru no wo yameta (I got fed up just looking at the line, so I decided not to bother seeing it).
"Why does it always have to get so crowded?" she asked me over the phone. In fact, she spent so long on the phone complaining about it that watashi wa, guchi wo kiku koto ni unzari shite shimatta (I got fed up with listening to her moaning).
The best way to spend Golden Week perhaps is just taking it easy at home.