Here’s the luckiest photo I’ve ever taken. I was inside a bullet train stopped at a station. We were waiting too long so I figured an express train was coming. They are hard to hear coming because they are going so fast so I just clicked when I thought it would be there. Poof! Full speed ripping through the station! And what’s better is that image was shot with a Canon PowerShot, which is probably the slowest camera on the planet.
The girls drive the trains in Japan, too, you know! They’re also up front running the jet quick Shinkansen bullet trains, not just the little locals like here in this quick clip below. But wait. I thought the men ruled Japan! I thought the men kept women down. I thought the men kept women working back in the kitchen and making tea in the office. That’s what I still hear from the enlightened clowns in pretty much all of the West’s media outlets. Clueless. All of them.