Crazy train lady

When I was in Tokyo I saw a homeless man sleeping on a futon with blankets and everything. Homeless only in that he has no actual home, but he does have all the furnishings. Bums in Japan are rich men in India I suspect. My neighbour told me he saw a homeless man with an MD player. Yeah that's rock bottom, when you're stuck with a shitty MD player, I really feel like I want to work in a soup kitchen for that bloke.

Also, when I was in Tokyo I witnessed a Japanese lady going ballistic on the train. There were 4 or 5 Italian youths (dressed like god knows what, some mix of punk and goth) talking at one end of the carriage. Sitting opposite me was an elderly lady who was looking pretty put out by the Italian chattering. She kept giving them disgusted looks and fidgeting, and eventually she yelled out "shut up!" at them. They basically ignored her, they didn't speak any Japanese, for all they knew she was just a crazy person. The lady continues her tirade "Be quiet! This is Japan, in this country you don't talk on the trains, you sit in silence!" "ShutUP!!". They just kept talking. It was amusing for me because I could understand what she was saying, and I wasn't Japanese so it didn't make me uncomfortable. In my opinion the Italians were not being noisy. They were just talking at a pretty acceptable volume, it just seemed loud because everyone else was being so quiet, but the reason they were being quiet is because they were all travelling alone. I have never experienced so much chaos on a train as when a group of young Japanese get on together, so I doubt there was any real substance in this lady's claim that in Japan it is rude to talk on the train. She kept on yelling intermittently at them and they went on ignoring her until they eventually got off at Ginza. She got off too and followed them, trying to shoot them with death rays, except that she didn't have any so she just looked ridiculous and grumpy. It all amused me no end though. Thanks crazy lady!