I'm surrounded by them
Idiots. They're everywhere on this great, round world.

Certainly, sometimes when I see someone do something different than I would call "normal," something that makes me go "Uhhhh....", I'm experiencing what you'd call "Culture Shock." But really, sometimes, I see people do things that make me go "Uhhhh" and it's just because they're fucking stupid.

Particularly members of the fairer sex. Every country has its share of ditzes and bimbos. Japan more than others?

Take, for example, the pair that came into the gym today while I was on the stairclimber. In full street-clothes, they entered the training room and proceeded to work out. Please note that because this is Japan, by "street clothes," I mean one was wearing tight jeans and calf-high leather pointy-toed elf shoes. The other was wearing-- get this-- a short wool skirt and soft-leather, zip-up, 3-inch stiletto heeled boots. They were both wearing heavy sweaters.

The pair walked over to the treadmill like they would every day, got on each their own and proceeded to walk... then run like they were completing a normal workout. Of course, the running didn't last long but it was long enough for me to shoot them some REALLY OBVIOUS dirty looks for being such morons. Not only is their choice of clothing bad for the body to work out in, it rather quickly destroys EXTREMELY expensive (if crappy at the Waseda gym) equipment.

But did anyone stop them? Nooooooo. And when I got done with situps and noticed they were gone, it was only because they'd progressed to sitting in the weight machines and "lifting."

Fu.ck.ing. I.di.ots.

Why, world, do you make such obnoxiously obtuse human beings??????

AAAAGGGHHHH.