Dirrrrttttyyyyy

On the way back from the dojo I heard/saw one of the dirtiest things since I’ve been here.  It’s probably worse than the frequent, yet seemingly acceptable, nose picking but they usually just clean the frontal rim-like area, almost like a scratch, so although disturbing, it’s not too gross (until I saw this other video tonight, which I will describe later).  Anyway, I was standing on the edge of the platform waiting for the train, then behind me off to my right, about 10 feet away, I hear this “HHHCCCKKKHHH”, you know, the sound people make when they’re horking up their phlegm.  That was gross enough.  Then I heard the spit.  In that split second after the split I thought, “?!?! There’s no way he spat it over the edge on the tracks behind me, it sounds like he’s in the middle of the platform.”  So I turned around out of curiosity.  There he was rubbing his spit into the ground with his shoe.  Spitting was bad enough in the first place but now he’s spreading it around with his shoe.  The ground will not absorb your spit, sir, you’re just making the puddle bigger.  Not only that, you’ll be tracking the spit around on your shoe.  Good job stupid dirty old man. 

Anyway, plans got changed tonight and I ended up at Emi’s house for dinner instead of them coming over here.  While there I was shown a video that was taken on one of the trains in Japan.  It’s of this guy who has his finger deep into his nostril and picking the life out of it.  When his finger resurfaces for air, he pauses and looks at his findings.  Then the same finger plunges into another orafice.  Yes, it was the mouth.  He picked the life out of his nose and had to suck it back in through his mouth. 

Do they have no shame?