what do you see?

Sometimes I realise that there are things I see every day that I now take for granted, but that are actually a bit strange. Like female cleaners in mens's toilets (and vice versa apparently), or trains containing businessmen, schoolgirls in sailor outfits, construction workers, middle-aged women in kimonos, older women with shopping bags bent almost double from a life-time of carrying baskets on their backs, and the occasional sumo-wrestler. Or trains that arrive on time every-time!



Picked up a free newspaper today, which was running a picture of Tony Blair on it's front page ("Happy Birthday Tony")! Why?! Inside was the strange mish-mash of stories that are around at the moment: SARS, North Korea, the Pana Wave Laboratory cult driving around Japan in white vans, Tama-chan the seal with a fish hook in it's head and the newly elected member of a local assembly "The Great Saske" - an ex-pro-wrestler who insists on wearing a multi-coloured mask at all times...