“In packed trains, conditions are ripe to turn so-called ‘normal’ people into the abnormal.”
Doctor, and former head of the UFJ Bank health management centre, Yoichi Maitada, explaining the stresses and strains of travelling on Japan’s jam-packed trains.
The already ‘abnormal’ however just go absolutely berserk.
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Actually, I know the feeling. I boarded a packed train on chuo line last week and grew three extra fingers and a dorsal fin! I felt damn abnormal.