Dear Mr. Noguchi, confession, I was snorting with laughter in a most unladylike fashion reading this. I know you were being serious and all that, I will try not to snort in such an unladylike manner next time.
We don’t talk in lifts, or morning and afternoon commuter trains. However a train in the evening or the weekend is a delightful multilingual cacophony.
Mr Noguchi was taking no prisoners today. I want him to come to the UK. He can teach elevator etiquette and tell people the same applies to public transport too.
Perhaps because it's an academic community and not an elevator with random strangers, but I find at my university we always talk on the elevators, but always about innocuous topics like, "We're halfway through the semester!" and make an effort to include whoever else gets on. I like these short bits of socializing.
Mr. Noguchi would not be happy to hear that on my first trip to Japan I had dinner at the Ginza Kyubey at the New Otani. Being a sushi lover and confident in my knowledge the first words out of my mouth were "can I start with a Tuna Avocado roll please". The older sushi chef looked at me, waived his had, made a sound like "Ehh" and suggested we just eat whatever he served us (mom, aunt and myself). Oh well...
I really enjoyed this one. Down in our cabbage patch, almost nobody talks to me except my husband and an occasional dog.
Awwwwwww!!!
Dear Mr. Noguchi, confession, I was snorting with laughter in a most unladylike fashion reading this. I know you were being serious and all that, I will try not to snort in such an unladylike manner next time.
HONNNNNNK!!!
We don’t talk in lifts, or morning and afternoon commuter trains. However a train in the evening or the weekend is a delightful multilingual cacophony.
Can’t help yourselves, CAN YOU? :)
Mr Noguchi was taking no prisoners today. I want him to come to the UK. He can teach elevator etiquette and tell people the same applies to public transport too.
Will pass the message along! Thanks for reading!
RE: no foreigners allowed. You should do what my friend did in China. He urinated in front of the shop.
Wheeeeeeeee!
Perhaps because it's an academic community and not an elevator with random strangers, but I find at my university we always talk on the elevators, but always about innocuous topics like, "We're halfway through the semester!" and make an effort to include whoever else gets on. I like these short bits of socializing.
Noguchi slamming it down!
He will be pleased you said this.
Dear Mr Glen,
Is Mr Noguchi secretly British ?
Yours,
SM Doward, Esquire
Oh, I will ask him!!
Mr. Noguchi would not be happy to hear that on my first trip to Japan I had dinner at the Ginza Kyubey at the New Otani. Being a sushi lover and confident in my knowledge the first words out of my mouth were "can I start with a Tuna Avocado roll please". The older sushi chef looked at me, waived his had, made a sound like "Ehh" and suggested we just eat whatever he served us (mom, aunt and myself). Oh well...