You know chain chomps in Super Mario? Miyamoto based that off of real Japanese people, they bite (and they’re giant black steel balls)

I have some pet peeves and I’ve never really heard anyone else express the need to elbow someone in the clavicle when another person does one of these things that I don’t like, so maybe other people don’t really care if people do them; but I do care. I consider doing one of these things a lack of common courtesy, which is a bad thing in my book.

In Japan, one type of person embodies a couple of my pet peeves; this person is the old fogie. Some of them are very reminicient of Dr. Farnsworth, especially when he was bent at a 90 degree angle. I don’t know how the hell they are bent over so much, but it’s quite interesting to see. Some ideas of how they got so include farming (quite possible), an obsession with feet (quite possible), a fascination with sidewalks (quite possible), or they are trying to fulfill their lifelong dream of emulating a right angle (quite possible).

If you’re Japanese, your head gets huge when you get old.

Anyways… I don’t really care if they’re bent over. It’s other things that they do that really irk me. And it’s not like they’re the only people who do it either; for some reason, people at the Wal-Mart near my hometown do this as well: be completely oblivious of what is happening around you.

Why does this piss me off? Mostly because of their actions. I’ve had old people get off a bus and come to a complete stop right outside the door. Other old people have stopped right in front of the turnstile and take forever to remove their ticket. In Japan, the majority of the people who have done this or things like this are older, usually 70+. I’m not really sure why it’s mostly old people, but it seems to follow a trend.

One of the times I went to Kyoto I was in line to buy a bus pass. I wasn’t the only person in line and the place where you buy the pass isn’t very large (even by Japanese standards). Nonetheless, an old guy tries to jump the whole freaking line. Thankfully, the guy at the counter told him to get in the back of the line.

When I was commuting to work (something I don’t do anymore), old ladies would CONSISTENTLY cut in front of me without batting an eye. Now, don’t think I’m just forgetting about the times when other people cut in front of me; I’m not. It’s just that other people rarely cut in front of me.

I had a conversation with one of my J-pals about old people. And we both came to the conclusion that old people in Japan are just like kids. They do whatever the fuck they want and don’t really care about other people at all. So it seems that it’s not that they’re oblivious of their surroundings, but just that they don’t give a shit. Whatever, it still pisses me off.

Old people are also the mostly likely to stare straight at you like you’re wearing a bear costume and singing show tunes in public. Leave me alone old people! There’s nothing wrong with The Pirates of Penzance.