2 Americans and 4 Japanese are on a Train...

Let me set this up properly. Some trains have compartments with six seats apiece in them. This particular train was like that. The cab consisted of me, LA, an 80 year old Japanese couple, and two 60 year old Japanese-German women. Yeah, these ladies were Japanese, but have lived in Germany over 40 years.

I need to go back to previous train talk between me and LA. We were talking about being funny and I said that I don’t feel the need to be humorous because I am usually surrounded by people funnier than myself. Anyone around me in the year of 2007 knows I was really funny then, but that was one year. I told LA that my knack in humorous conversations is to say the thing that normally puts an end to the conversation. Let me get back to the Japanese.

Apparently the first hour on a train is Japanese nap time because all four of them were out. But when they wake and we get to talking LA has these people rolling. The couple doesn’t know English but hand motions are universal and they loved her. One of the ladies asks if I would grab the bags for the older couple that can’t speak English. LA looks at the old lady and basically, like in charades, jokes with the old lady that she must get the bag down and carry it on her back. I thought this couple was going to lose it, they were almost falling out of their seat.

What do you think I do? I try to add to the moment and say something funny. Any guesses as to what happens? The laughter subsides (shocker) and the Japanese-German corrects my English. That’s a bad day.