I have Super Secret Powers in Japan
My 8-months pregant friend, “KeitaiGoddess” commuting here in Tokyo questions:
Q: “What is the nationality are these able bodied people (men, women, teenagers) who sit in the priority seating on public transport and ignore the heavily pregnant person standing right in front of them panting from the stairs and the Tokyo summer heat?”
A: Most folks in the Tokyo are developmentally disabled, so those handicapped seats are are always filled.
I bet KeitaiGoddess must have gained my Secret Super Powers!
Everyone seated in the handicapped seats on Japanese trains falls comatose the moment I enter the car on crutches.
Also check out my previous 3Yen posts…
— —Final solution for those pesky handicapped passengers
— —Tokyo Metro’s “Manner” (sic) poster of the month
— —Subway sitting pretty
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July 13th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
ThinkingIt’s always the same thing. To think is to go krazy.
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September 4th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
If you’re an underdog, mentally disabled, physically incapacitated, if you don’t fit in, if you’re not as pretty as the others, you can be as effervescent as a loach. :-p
February 28th, 2013 at 11:52 pm
This guy looks like be belongs sitting in the Handicapped Seats, doesn’t he?
March 7th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
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And, learn the-rest-of-the-story of “Sumo Seating” at the source: blog.tokyonama.com
March 26th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
I have mo’ betta…
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