I was on a train on the San’in Line the other day, and the train was quite full. Surprisingly full, in fact, for the San’in Line.

Anyway, a group of five people- parents and three children, two boys and one girl— came past looking for seats. One of the boys nudged the other, pointed at me, and said, ‘Hey, look.’ Of course, I could hear and I could understand. So I said to the boy, ‘Is there some problem?’ He said, ‘No, no problem.’ I told him it was rude to point, and that was it.

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