2/5/2009

This month’s Tokyo Metro “Manner” poster features me standing on crutches in front of the seats reserved for the handicapped as a typical Japanese couple munch on some shit.

original

Actually, rather than standing on crutches, I love sitting on the floor of the train in front of the seats reserved for the handicapped.

Sometimes when I’m feeling frisky I ask the seated folks to, “Please hold my crutches so I can hang from the straps with both hands.”
As you can see in the signage, they ought to know that those are reserved for aliens, ha, ha.

Update…

The February poster at the top of this page is one of the monthly series for the Tokyo Metro subways aimed at cajoling the so-called ‘rude’ Japanese public to have better train manners. In previous months, posters reminded riders to:
–Please be considerate of passengers getting on and off
– The official start of the Japanese Vomiting Season
– Please party on the train!
– “Not torture eyeballs on jostling trains“,
– “Please do it like a Moose”
– “DON’T SWIM IN FRONT OF THE TRAINS“
—”Please no umbrella golf on the platform”