Mobile phones
It was a bright Saturday morning around 8 am, Shinkansen - bullet train started from Shinagawa station to Mishima, 4 stations before Mount Fuji, the symbol of Japan. Shinkansen is full, as usual we are travelling on Unreserved compartment, no place to sit, most of us are standing, no mobile phone rings with latest hit song tunes, no louder laughs, no fellow passenger is talking in a louder voice, yet most of the passengers are having mobile on their hands sending SMS or playing games on it, all the mobiles are in silent mode, its a wonder. Some of the passengers are working on their Vaio (Laptop), some of the passengers are chatting, smiling to each other but there is no disturbance to the fellow passengers.
On each compartment there are four priority seats meant for physically challenged passengers, carrying mothers, mothers accompanying small children and for elderly passengers, near the priority seats the mobile phones must be in silent mode, passengers by themselves refrain from talking on their mobiles inside the train. Not a single passenger is talking on his mobile inside the train. Its unbelievable.
How to drive a Car on the road?
Usually human beings has to wait on the side of the road to allow the speeding car to pass by.
But here the opposite is happening, the car is waiting on the side of the Zebra crossing until the human beings cross the road. Then i realized the driver of the car is a human being, values human more than his car or his own ego.
Filth of pets.
Pets are most common among Japanese, especially Dog, may be because the reverse of DOG is GOD, the God we worship ;) Usually the owners of the Dog take it for a morning walk, the owner will have a carry back with him with some old papers, tissue papers, i wondered why every person walking with the Dog has a carry bag with some papers. It is for collecting the excreta of the Dog. We usually take out our Pets for leaving its excreta on the Streets, but here it is different. Nowhere we can find the excreta of the Pets or Humans on the streets.
Notice board on a Government Apartment.
Neighbourhood of mine use to talk in a louder voice, not only during daytime but on late nights to his parents on India. He was talking inside his room with all the doors closed, on that day there was a inspection from the Apartment management, they noticed the noise coming out of his room, the very next day they put noise attention on the notice board. Please have a look at it on the below picture.
On the Lift
I am working on the 19Th floor of our office, whenever i want to go down to 1st floor or basement through the lift, i will press the lift button and wait for the lift to stop on 19Th floor once it is stopped, manage to get in with a grim face, avoiding the people inside the lift, but the people inside look at my face and smile, expecting a smile in return, but i do not have the courtesy to smile back, i will stand tight lipped. Once the lift stops at 1st floor, i will try to get out of the lift first as if i am the VIP, somebody got into the lift on 20Th or 21st floor will still stand on the corner of the lift pressing the open (lift) door button on the lift, until everybody get out of the lift carefully without hurting themselves on the closing doors. Time and again i was doing like that very recently i also started looking at the face of the people inside the lift and started smiling at them, and now i am pressing the open button on the lift so that everybody get out of the lift first and i come out of the lift at last. Like an old English adage goes I comes last...
