So, maybe you guys have deducted in a previous post that I live in Japan, right? A lot of things are different here: the food, the mannerisms, the traffic, the way of life, blah, blah blah.
In the middle of that last item, there's the safety subject, wich is very respected over here. And why? Because the police works clean and VERY severe.
I realized that today...
So, I went out for a ride on my bike. I was pretty bored at the house, since my parents went to a boring bingo kinda-thing and I had no money to go out with friends, so, I decided to finally put the working out idea on execution. So, I get my glasses, my keys, my phone and my earphones and just go.
Half an hour later, my playlist is getting pretty boring, so I start to scroll my list to find a more convenient song to listen on my bike. At the same time, a police officer passes by my side and asks me to get out of the bike.
I didn't even know what I've done! I was a little confused, but I knew that I could get out of that by playing the "I don't know japanese" guy (well...I really don't). But what started to freak me out was that he came really close to me and started to ask for my passport and my ID, where is my house, my parents, etc (Yeah, magically, I understood 30% of what he said). After about 7 minutes of "conversation", he took notes from my bike and told me to not do it again in the future, and to always carry my ID with me.
I was like "ooook...". At first, I thought this was nonsense, but it is the police's job. Maybe that's because the country is safer than others. And that was also a remind that: 1-I need to learn japanese, and 2-I need to get informed. I say that because, apparently, here we have some "cycling-laws" that just got into action, and people have already been ARRESTED for disobeying it.
Well, better safe than sorry, right?
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