I took this on the train from Utsunomiya to Shinjuku Station. At first I did a double take. Then I smiled to myself. Then I thought about how completely uncomfortable it would be to sit on your legs for a whole train ride home. Then I remembered that with my kick-ass Japanese cell phone (Vodafone) I could rather discretely take a picture without drawing attention to myself.
Then I thought, this is the sort of picture that ends up on websites where people post about crop circles, alien sightings, and ghost chasing.
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Cool picture, man!
SHAME ON YOU, MATTY, FOR TAKING A PHOTO OF A DEFENSELESS LEGLESS ASIAN. And shame on the woman for pretending to have legs, even going so far as to carry around fakey shoes with her in order to further perpetuate her leg hoax.
Whoa, better switch to decaf, X!
Ms. Boddy, eh? Hmmm.
That's an awesome picture! Also, it made me think of when I took a Japanese tea ceremony class. You really sit on your legs like that for the entire ceremony. When we all got up, almost everyone's legs were dead - one of the guys almost stumbled off the mat! But we had to pretend that we could walk perfectly, since the ceremony is a super-formal situation.
I never thought that would come in handy until I was pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving. Last night.
I guess my point is: maybe she's figured out how to sit comfortably like that w/o losing feeling in her legs. And yes, I passed the breathalyzer.
Very nice picture Matt...thank god for discreet Japanese picture phones.
Derful photo. Is that a keetai (cell phone) she's holding? She's probably IM-ing to the authorities regarding the gaijin that's taking images of people using his keetai. Run, Matt, run.
wow, that train is seriously clean.
That's right -- the trains in Japan are clean. I hadn't really thought about that. I don't think I've ever been in a train in Japan that had been tagged or even had much garbage. I might have seen at most only one plastic bag (tied shut) left on the floor of a train car at any one time. Let us know, Matt, more about your traveling experiences. Have you been on a train at night with a drunk? Anyone try to practice English with you on the train? Do people avoid sitting with you -- that's not meant as a personal insult. It happens.
Don't the Japanese think cameras steal their soul? Or is that Native Americans? Or did I make that up?
Anyway, neat picture. You could like totally stock someone and they wouldn't even notice (woman of Japan...BEWARE!).
WV = CHSHI - Isn't that like a food or a department store or a porn star where you are?
It's aboriginees (yeah, I can't spell that) that believe cameras still their soul.
Silly. Everyone knows the only way to get rid of your soul is to either sell it for a doughnut, or to sell it to Milhouse for $5 so you can buy some dinosaur sponges to scare your sister with.
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