Monday, August 9, 2010

Ooh, Those Japanese

I felt a little sick today but I'm fairly sure that it's not an actual illness. More a combination not having breakfast, gorging on lunch, and then playing tennis. I will be really pissed if I get sick again this trip. What I'm really worried about is being sick for the flight home though. Specifically Narita airport in Tokyo. Them Japaneresers can be pretty scary. They get really serious about certain things like honor, family, and apparently sickness. They have signs all over the airport about going to see their medical center if you are sick and everybody there wears masks and seems to be closely inspecting you for even the slightest sign of a sniffle. I always watch myself for any cough or sneeze because I fully expect them to quarantine me their until they are sure that I'm not disease ridden. I first saw it a couple years ago about the time that the swine flu scare was at its height and I just chalked it up to that but it's been consistent every other year so I guess not. I saw one family reading their posters and debating whether to go and get some medicine for their son on the flight. I wanted to scream at them,"No! It's a trap! You'll never get out of there again!" A spread of disease across JAL would be worse than across any other airline. I believe that there would be many more deaths. In the words of Jeremy Clarkson," If the Japanese failed that badly they'd all fall on their pencils even before the order came for it." Ooh, those Japanese.