Last Wednesday I was out on my balcony hanging some laundry when my neighbour starts shouting at me that I’m noisy. Since this already happened once before on Sunday and it pretty much sounded like a paranoid, crazy woman, I decided to just ignore here. I was hardly making any sound hanging my laundry after all. Not 10 seconds later she starts banging the laundry pole, that is pretty much standard in every Japanese apartment, against the divide between my balcony and hers. Again I decide to just let her be and ignore her. Then she starts shouting again, and all of a sudden I see her fist coming right through the divide. She punched a nice big hole in the divide.

Besides scaring the crap out of me with her wacky behaviour she also made me very mad. Fortunately my apartment is rented by my company, so I only had to call them and they handled everything for me.

Then at 11.30pm a neat guy in a suit rings my bell. He says he is the tenant next door and that he would like to apoligise for his girlfriends behaviour with a large cake… Well, he has been warned that if it happens again he will be requested to move out by the landlord, so hopefully no more cake from him. 

Today at work I heard the weirdest and most ingorant thing I’ve heard in a while. As most of you know, I work in a hotel. This morning I got to talk a little bit with an American lady, who was waiting on an airport transfer with her husband. Her flight was at 10.35am and our conversation took place around 7.30am. She was getting a little worried about her flight. After all, in America you need to be at the airport for two hours in advance, even for domestic flights, because of security reasons. In Australia you only need to be at the airport 30 minutes prior to departure.

And this was what made this lady so nervous. Because how could they possibly do the security checks in 30 minutes. Or… are there now security checks in Australia? “Well,” she said, “surely you have security checks in Australia. I’ve walked through Melbourne and I saw many many Muslims, so I better hope you have security checks at the airport.” What the…??????

I think terrorism isn’t America’s biggest threat. Surely more dangerous than terrorism is ingorance. Who wants to join me in a war on ingorism?