Wednesday, 23 October 2013

HULKに成ろう!!!

What a complete banker........


I want to cover a few points in this post, filling in the gaps about my boring life as a budding professional form completer... The other thing I intent to blab on about endlessly again is.... yet more trainy frolics. (I know you all SO look forward to train posts.) and it's definitely not like this....







So to start off on a more boring note than trains (so you'll think the next part is comparatively interesting) this part is about *drum roll please*



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bank accounts!!!

Ok, Ok, I get it... you want interesting content. I'll get to that soon! But for now I'm still happy I managed to fill in 6000 (give or take 5996) very complicated bank related forms entirely in Japanese! AND, I didn't even make one mistake. People all around me were making exasperated noises and getting replacement form after from. BUT as the amazingly skilled form filler I am, my correctly used ball point pen ink was glistening in the glow of the fluorescent light ready to be approved much before many of the room had finished even one form.

But not without some confusion along the way...









So, from one thrilling topic to another!!.... All aboard!! It's time for departure!! First class is situated in the first two carriages and a trolley will be passing through the isles as we journey through the blog paragraph of a lifetime. 

Trains part two


My theory is as follows: I think the station and the trains are the crossroads where all the weird, eccentric, frantic and bored people of Tokyo clash in a scattering of suits and briefcases. 

                     - Sam Burton


Face of utmost horror.
Today I was waiting for my train, (a rare occurrence in a country where it is possible to be in a train traffic jam due to their frequency.) So as I was tutting and sighing to myself at the huge span of 2 minutes extra I was being forced to delay my daytime activities, I gazed across at the opposite platform where the announcement that the train door were closing was just being made. At this moment a man who had just entered the station made a face of utmost horror... He then started to not only began to run towards the train but to take the stairs 3 at a time. As he reached the train the doors had almost closed, but, instead of resigning to his fate like a normal person, he instead grabbed the closing doors and amid the cries of 'お客様、やめてください!!’ (STOP please Mr customer), proceeded to become the incredible hulk and wrestle the doors back open as to board the train.

Even though the train he boarded was the 12:42 and the next one was at 12:43. 




I hope he comes back......I could use a hand with those pesky trains.

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