The Kind of Rude Behavior that Infuriates Me

Naoko Miyoshi

There are two situations which I think are rude and which infuriate me. The first situation applies to houses, restaurants, and everywhere where people eat.

In Japan, to stick chopsticks into rice is very rude, because a long time ago people stuck chopsticks into rice for people who died, and also these look like the 'sotoba' that surround graves in Japan. So if you do that to someone who is from Japan, he (or she) feels very uncomfortable. Even if you do it to your rice, it makes people annoyed, and I think it looks not so nice or good. So I think nobody should do it.

The second situation is in trains. I’ve seen some women applying make up in the train. When I first saw it, I was so surprised, because that woman put her make-up box on the seat next to her, brushed her hair and started to applying make up.

Moreover an old woman was standing next to her, but she pretended that she didn’t notice her. I think applying make-up is rude, but not giving a seat for a elderly person is more rude. She should have removed her make-up box for the old woman and stopped applying her make up.I was made annoyed by her. Then a conductor was coming and attended to her, so she removed her make-up box. I think those behaviors really annoyed me. We should care about other people.