The 3 day weekend - thanks to the workers day - coincided with Hiro's brother's one year memorial service so we took a Hayabusa early Friday morning to Shin Aomori and changed to an express to Odate. (It was the first time for us to take this route and with a good connection is easily the easiest route despite being a greater distance, but it's not a patch on the prettiness of the Hanawa line).
The man sitting next to Hiro, a young guy in his twenties, provided a new dimension to the on-the-train-make-up applying and general personal preening demographic. He spent a good 20 minutes cutting his finger nails with the clippers paying very close attention to the detail. When he was done with that he pulled out a dental mirror and plucked his eyebrows for ... I don't know how long.. I fell asleep. Hiro was less than impressed with me taking the first photo so I restrained myself with the eyebrow plucking. The eyebrow plucking bothers me less than the fingernail clipping... not a pleasant sound... though to his credit he did wrap them up properly !
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At least he wasn't leaving toenail clippings everywhere, which is what a local did on the train from Sydney Airport, where we had returned from Japan.
You have just made me want to throw up...
No manners sign could cure that!
An undergrad in one of my classes used the lecture to rid his nose of long nose hairs! He used one hand to cover his lower face and the other on the tweezers so the prof up front couldn't tell, but since the kid was sitting in the second row almost all the students sure could...
But toenails is even grosser, I think!
Welcome back! ^^
I've seen men clip their nails on trains a few times (but thank heavens fingers only). Ah well. Think of it this way: at least the young man didn't do his make-up after he had plucked his eyebrows.
Or did he? (@_@)
eeewwwww nose hair picking in class...
Reminds me of being in China and one of my very sweet quiet female students kept spitting yellow phlegm onto the floor of the classroom... I was dumbstruck. I just couldn't believe it. I didn't want to call her on it in front of her classmates as she was already a loner and she probably didn't know any differently...
Fortunately one of her obnoxious classmates spat on the floor as well & I had no hesitation laying down the rules about appropriate hygiene...
I don't about the makeup... perfectly within the realms of possibility... but I slept :)
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