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sl8

(13,966 posts) Sat Jul 11, 2020, 12:58 PM Jul 2020

Little girl boarding schoolbus in Japan

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Little girl boarding schoolbus in Japan (Original Post) sl8 Jul 2020 OP

I love the Japanese culture. Ferrets are Cool Jul 2020 #1

The bus is painted like a whale Bayard Jul 2020 #2

I was stationed in Japan in the late 1970s... 3catwoman3 Jul 2020 #3

Ferrets are Cool

(21,113 posts)

1. I love the Japanese culture.

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Sat Jul 11, 2020, 01:20 PM

Jul 2020

Bayard

(22,209 posts)

2. The bus is painted like a whale

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Sat Jul 11, 2020, 01:36 PM

Jul 2020

Beats our big old yellow behemoths any day.

3catwoman3

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3. I was stationed in Japan in the late 1970s...

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Sat Jul 11, 2020, 02:52 PM

Jul 2020

...while in the Air Force nurse corps. I very quickly picked up the custom of bowing, because it is done almost everywhere - stores, restaurants, social encounters.

I was there for 2 years. When I got back to the States, it took me several weeks to stop bowing. Clerks in the stores would look at me like I had lost my mind, or was perhaps about to have a seizure.

This country could use a good dose of Japanese civility right about now.

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