Relax... let all your worries fade away.

For all of the talk about Japanese never letting their guard down, we have seen some pretty funny things that indicate another side to that story. In the Jusco department store we go into for groceries, kids clothes, phone cards, etc., there is a department that sells massage chairs. There are about 9 massage chairs lined up in rows of three (and columns of 3! I can do math!). Every time we go the chairs are filled with people sacked out getting their chair massage. Head down, probably drooling, shoes off.. relaxed as if they were in their own living rooms.

Today we went and saw that not only was everyone comatose in the chairs, but there was also some dude riding on a bucking bronco machine. He was just sitting there... bucking... there letting his head wobble with the movement of the machine looking blankly out into the rug department while he bucked on his bronco. Gee, it is Wednesday afternoon... in JAPAN (!) I think I'll go buck on the bronco at the department store for a few hours.

There were also two people on the fat vibrating machines vibrating away.