Holy crap holy crap holy crap I am so going to hell!
First, you need to understand that Japanese trains are a rough affair. You need to push to get somewhere. Even with my Gaijin aura, Japanese people have their patented "Indifference Shield" that lets them look down and pretend they can't hear you ask to get by.
I mean...ALL day, every day, I have to push through to get off the trains. Everyone does it. We aren't talking, like, a BIG push. It's more like a forceful nudge. Halfway through it, people will start moving on their own. I will typically try a "Sumimasen?" ("Excuse Me?") to get by at first, but it never works. Earlier today I decided against it and just went straight to the push, because the old woman in front of me was already looking down and I assumed she was ignoring me (on purpose). So it's not like I did something wrong, right?
Besides...sortof...pushing an old, blind woman down.
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I wish I had a joke right now but the image of an old, blind woman trying to get up is haunting me.
My first instinct was to try and help, but someone beat me to it and threw out a "Stupid gaijins ("foreigners", remember?)" remark so I felt that going back was out of the question.
Holy crap I pushed over a blind woman.
Godzwilla versus a Blind Woman?
The winner: Nobody is a winner when a blind person gets pushed down. (But technically, Godzwila won.)
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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2 comments:
YOu are doomed!!!! Remeber in the original tale the Japanese people defeated the eevil monster known as Godzilla.
A blind woman? When i mentioned that in the land of the blind the one eyed man was king I had no idea it would come to this...jww
I like JW's reference to original Godzilla- he went bumbling and crashing through crowds too.
jrj
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