プリッツ持ってるくんと麻雀と羊

プリッツ持ってるくん：すごい紙だ！

写真で麻雀も見える。

In 'I didn't have a camera handy' news, I'm regularly amused by the way people react at the pedestrian crossings on my way to work. There's one in particular where there's a period during which all the lights are red, and a tiny side street flashes green for a bit (so many drivers miss that, and sit there for several cycles, but that's beside my point). Anyway, if there's no traffic merging from said tiny street, I usually cycle over the crossing while everything is stationary and red-lighted.

The number of people who will automatically start across with me, then see the red lights, catch themselves, and leap/stagger/fall backwards towards the perceived safety of the pavement they just left is just staggering!

The other day two old Japanese ladies in kimono at another crossing did exactly this after some young Japanese cyclists bombed it over the crossing ahead of an oncoming tram. As it thundered slowly towards the crossing these two ladies were heads down shuffling after the cyclists, totally oblivious to the tons of oncoming metal and the red lights. About halfway across it clicked, and I bet they haven't had occasion to move so fast in decades...

Thankfully they were laughing about it once they got over the shock =)