5 points of Japanese wisdom

Some things I've noticed:
1. All announcements in Japan are made (or so it would seem) by the same person, who either took speech lessons from that godawful Fran Drescher (aka The Nanny), has severe nasal disfunctions of their own, or simply thinks it's hilarious to hold their nose while they're telling you the train will be delayed for 40 minutes because there's a snail on the tracks who simply won't budge.

2. Any attempts to move said snail in anything quicker than it's own time would be considered extremely discourteous unless snail was in line for the train, in which case he would be very wise to stand aside or risk being squished.

3. All queues for trains are sedate and orderly up until the exact moment the train pulls into the station, at which point chaos takes over and it's every commuter for themselves.

4. Even if something incredibly exciting happens during a typical day for any given Japanese person, they will not tell you about it even if you ask them directly, "Did anything exciting happen to you today?". Example, (Question as given), "no", real answer, extracted after much cajoling, "I saw accident, woman with many blood, I CPR, she lives". Aughhhhh!

5. Teaching under these circumstances is nothing short of frustrating and rib-tickling at the same time. It's definitely a love/hate thing. Most helpful rule of thumb: Don't take "no" for an answer and when someone says "nothing special" for their weekend plans, they're probably flying to the moon.