Because Ed was in the HOSPITAL! :D In Japan, people give single outrageously expensive musk melons as gifts, like fruit baskets. This article (http://www.bigempire.com/sake/yubari.html) can give you a good idea of how it works, despite my suspicions that the entire tone is kind of "we are weirded out by the weirdness of Japanese weirdos."
And to answer your question from before, I think they only left them there for a day. Or maybe she meant to leave them there for a month, but Winry kicked up such a FUSS that they went back to get them much sooner. XB
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Date: 2004-04-28 11:47 pm (UTC)And to answer your question from before, I think they only left them there for a day. Or maybe she meant to leave them there for a month, but Winry kicked up such a FUSS that they went back to get them much sooner. XB