Rush Hour
“It’s absolutely ridiculous if people don’t think there’s something wrong with this situation. Watching people on trains, I can see actions that clearly indicate an increase in stress levels. People sit down muttering to themselves, become more aggressive and argue more. Excessive sweating is also an indication that the nerves are frayed. Even train gropers, perhaps, could be affected by all the stress they’re undergoing and lose control at the slightest pull of a trigger. In packed trains, conditions are ripe to turn so-called ‘normal’ people into the abnormal,” Yoichi Maitada, a doctor and former head of the UFJ Bank health management center, tells Spa!
…until today, I realised on was on one of those fricking trains (needed to be in work earlier).
Made worse by the fact that some git near me decided to let off one of the most gruesome farts I’ve ever experienced.
Not a happy chap, I was!
Mind you, at least I got to come home earlier today 
3 Days until holiday in Osaka. Woooohoooo.
2005 Sep 13 Gavin
Holiday in Osaka? You’ve only just had a holiday back to the UK! Alright for some
And rush hour trains, horrible things, and quite agree about the ‘seething’ masses, lots of people seem on egde. I just try to go with the flow and not jab my elbows into anyone’s ribs, but even then, other people sometimes just. p*ss. you. off.
Think I’d better go and lie down…
When I say holiday, I mean the mad rush down to Osaka on the Shinkansen on Friday night after work. Meet up with a couple of Yuko’s friends you live down that way for two days, and then make use of the public holiday on Monday to get back home.