Arguments

I love that in China, if there's an argument in a public place, everyone clusters around and watches. It's totally different than Japan, where I never saw any arguments. Actually now I remember one... about 6 am in Osaka the police took one guy into the police station for drugging some girl in a club. His friends decided to get him back, so they charged the police station. There were about 10 young tough guys fighting and pushing the same number of police. All the club kids stood around and watch. I got the explanation of what was happening from two huge American bouncers who were watching too. About 15 minutes later other cops showed up and it dispersed. Amazingly the guys who'd been fighting were allowed to walk away.

Last week on the overnight train there was an argument between a guy sitting and a guy standing. Everyone woke up and watched. Apparently the guy was sitting in another guy's seat. Pretty soon a conductor came along, looked at standing guy's his ticket, and made the other guy get up and stand the rest of the 9 hours. Why would you ever get into a losing argument like that?