Osaka Cherokee

As soon as you walk in any Japanese school there are little cubby hole things for kids to take off their outside shoes and change into their indoor shoes. Whatever, its Japan, right? So this morning when we all came in I notice that all my kids are huddled around the shoe thing. I go over there and there's a yellow and black butterfly hanging out in one of the holes. I caught it and let it go outside. The kids were all amazed but nowhere near as spastic as the teachers were. The way they carried on you'd think I'd touched a rabid dog that had just rolled in its own feces. They were like, "you gotta hurry up and wash your hands because of the germs!" Germs?! What the fuck!? Its a butterfly. Butterflies don't have germs.
This is just another example of everybody here being absolutely afraid of anything natural or living. Too much concrete in this place. The Japanese do their best to control, conform, and homogenize nature into nice little theme parks where they can visit on the weekends.

Song of the Day: White Stripes- My Doorbell