Japanese society honestly cracks me up...anyone here ever Read the Blog Gaijin Smash?
LOL There is a particular story he tells of them LOVING To stand in lines.
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I was in downtown Kyoto once with my wife. We were in the shopping area, which can get quite crowded during tourist season. And by tourist, I don’t mean fellow Gaijin – I mean other Japanese people from various parts of the country.
There is a certain crepe shop in this area which almost always has a huge line of people for it. I don’t know what, if anything, makes this particular crepe shop special. And never mind that crepes can be found almost anywhere else in this area, with another crepe shop not even 50 meters away. Sometimes the line for the first crepe shop is so long, that people at the end will actually be standing in front of the second crepe shop. And that in itself is amazing, but not the point of this particular story.
My wife had gone off to go buy some cosmetics or something. The shop she went to was fairly small, so I offered to stay outside as to not take up space. I was standing near the line for this crepe shop, when two girls, I think from out of town walked by (I think they were out of town because of their dialect…). One of the girls pointed out the large line and asked what it was for. The other girl said she didn’t know. What makes this story notable is that at this point, both girls simply got in line. After seeing a couple walk by eating crepes, they realized that this was a line for crepes, and then determining that a nice crepe would indeed be delicious, decided to remain in line."
Funny stuff. Funny stuff...