First there was this
guy:
And then there was
this guy:
And then there were
these girls who probably weren’t aware of their filmic predecessors. And I wonder if they were aware of the
timetable and knew when the next train was coming:
And then there were
these 5000 people in Tokyo at the end of 2015:
At 8 am on November
16th an overhead cable broke on the Japan Railways Kobe Line between
Kobe and Motomachi Stations. The train
service was suspended while a repair crew got to work, and 5,000 or so
passengers had to leave the train, and walk along the tracks to the nearest
station.
They weren’t in danger,
but even so it’s hard to imagine the commuters of most nations remaining so
calm, and obeying instructions, and walking in single-file. And
at some point an employee of Japan Railways arrived, to apologize and give a
bottle of tea to each person who walked by.
He opened the bottles for them.
I’m not sure why I find this so moving, but I do.
