Gomi 3

The other night I walked past a guy and I heard something drop on the ground. I looked over and saw that he had dropped a cigarette butt. About a second later, I heard the same sound and looked back. He had dropped two more butts. I suppose the Japanese enjoy the view of cigarette butts on the ground. It must be a kind of traditional action like the tea ceremony. I focused on the street for the rest of my walk and noticed many cigarette butts. Maybe littering leftover cigarettes is a form of art? Nippon is so advanced that I can't keep up with these radical ways of thought and expression.

Heating

Some of the stores love to crank up the heat during the winter. Most people are bundled up with winter clothing and they start sweating within two minutes of being inside the heated stores. At restaurants, some heating can be understood because people like to take off their jackets, scarves, hats, and gloves to relax during the meal. When you're shopping, you don't want to take anything off because there's nowhere to put it. I hope at least the employees are comfortable in the sweltering atmosphere of the stores.

The warmth can be felt on the trains too. Nobody takes off their jacket or other accessories when riding the train so it makes no sense to heat it. When the train gets packed, everybody's body heat combined with the heater turns the train into a mobile sauna. The overly heated seats can be especially annoying. Just because the Nihon-jins enjoy setting their butt temperature to 451 degrees Fahrenheit doesn't mean I do too.

Asahi Super Dry

I participated in a short conversation about dryers recently with someone. She said that the dryers at her residence actually manage to dry her laundry in 20 minutes. Amazing. In my experience, even 60 minutes wasn't enough to dry my laundry. I've never tested the theoretical drying point of my dryers because of the money required for such a task. Perhaps the Native Nihonjin Indians have spies stealing drying technology from America. I only hope that I live long enough to see the dream of the super dryer revolution come to life here someday.

Architecture

Some of the designs of these train stations just baffle me. Every once in a while, one falls asleep and has to get off at a random train station to catch a train heading the opposite direction. Sometimes at the smaller stations, it's impossible to get to the other side of the tracks without exiting the station and walking around to another exit. Of course, exiting the station and re-entering costs extra money. The oversleeper is forced to pay extra money or waste more time going in the wrong direction until he/she can find an accessible track going towards their desired direction. People always talk about how great the train system in Japan is, yet they never discuss how crappy some of the train stations are.

Banking 4

I stepped up to the ATM on Wednesday figuring that I would be safe from fees because it wasn't a weekend. Unsurprisingly, I was charged 105 yen because it was a holiday. If only the banks in America had extorted fees from their customers like the Japanese banks, maybe some of them wouldn't have gone bankrupt. Look at what happened to Washington Mutual for trying to avoid fees.