Yesterday I was on lunch and decided to buy some bento from the local supermarket. After making the purchase (some sort of stuffed potatoes and pizza) I went to the microwave to heat it up. Unfortunately a mother and child arrived first. That's fine, lunch is an hour, you can wait a minute for someone else. But no, not one minute, the women throws her frozen lasagna in for 10 minutes (the box says 5 minutes) then tells the daughter, who is sitting in a hybrid Anpanman car/shopping cart (the back has room for groceries and the front looks like a plastic toy car that kids sit in with an Anpanman theme) that she will be back soon and to not move. She leaves her 3 year old daughter to watch the microwave while she goes and buys cookies! Finally after waiting ten minutes, in disgust over the bad parenting, I heat my food and go to ride the escalator up to the lunch room (my school is inside of a shopping centre). Except I can't walk up the escalators because two old people are standing side by each blocking the walking lane. In the Kanto region it is accepted practice to stand on the left, walk on the right. In the Kansai region it is the opposite. Slow people walking abreast is bad enough but stationary people standing abreast is that much worse!
I hereby declare that the mother is in violation of the social contract. The honour code that exists between individuals that allow us to live in a society without having to yell at each other constantly.
Showing posts with label slow people walking abreast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slow people walking abreast. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)