It used to drive me nuts how nobody was talking, turning sideways, looking with their eyes moving and not their heads, fully composed upright with their palms straddled in their laps.

I just could not understand how erect everyone was..

It was a huge contrast to what I was used to on a Sydney city train with people talking to each other, on their mobiles, sipping a cup off coffee, arms on back's of chairs, and having a bite to eat.

Ha that's pretty funny. So you decided to be the nail that would jump up out of the wood. I do remember being on a train and a bus and thinking the same thing - it was really quiet. It was basically just me and my friends talking. One day, the headmaster made an announcement saying that the students of the school were being too loud on the public transportation. x_x

LOL! You actually did that!? I'm glad to see i'm not the only person to get wild compulsions, but i've never actually followed through. Mine was usually standing by the doors as they open at a station and wanting to lean out and go 'RAWRR!" at the people waiting to get on.

Drawing on fogged up bus windows is another possible stupid thing. Maybe it's just because we were foreign but people wigged out over that, right until my pal wrote 死にたい (I want to die) and then it went very very quiet. XD

Just made one.

I was in class, going over some similarly pronounced words when I noticed an empty desk in the front middle. Like most people, my teaching style is absorbed from my own teachers. Like them, I'm pretty relaxed, so I half sat, half leaned on it. I heard about it from a Japanese teacher pretty much immediately. He wasn't upset though. He figured it was a cultural difference, and I just so happened to have a recorded lecture from one of my philosophy professors sitting cross legged on a desk while lecturing to dhow the Japanese teacher on my MacBook!

Riding a bike is ok when sober, NOT when drunk. I had to use all my skills when weaving through the stream of bike riders. Some old people cycle with their heads in the clouds and expect you to move. Stay away from them if you can. It can be hard when everyone is cycling on the pavement/sidewalk.

I think the craziest thing I've done is whilst speaking to a Japanese friend, use sentence endings like ”〜ｹﾄﾞ” and ”〜が”, along with sentence starters like "それに、”, "そして、”, and so on, and then just not say anything, look the other, way, and sip my drink.

It drives them nuts. It's my way of introducing a little madness into the daily lives of those around me.

I think I should get a little more radical. Ozkai, you've inspired me. I, for one, will subscribe to your methodology. :3

What's wrong with ending sentences with けど?

hah hah I find myself doing that in any language I speak in. Heh just forget what my main point was