OUCH MY FINGERS!

  Have you ever been on an airplane and complained about how crowded it was or maybe how uncomfortable it was? Sitting hours on a little seat with strangers all around you is torture, you say. Well, then imagine being stuffed in a train like little ants jammed together with almost no space to breathe in a small, rectangular box that you can't break through. Imagine someone adding more and more ants to the box and forcing them to stay in that box when it's already overflowing. Imagine being squished together like a giant sandwich, but it's now you in the middle along with many others. Are you complaining about how small and uncomfortable that airplane seat was now?

 
People get pushed around and squished together on trains in Tokyo, Japan, on morning rush days all the time. This mainly happens because the city is so crowded, and everyone needs to get to work. Because of this, there are people who actually get paid to push people on the train and make sure no passengers get stuck in between the closing doors. These workers were first called "passenger arrangement staff" but now they are called oshiya, which means "push" in Japanese. 

As you look around the train, you see this. Basically, a horrific sight of physical bullying and abuse to humans. Come on! People need to get their own space! This is literally human abuse! You see some people almost getting stuck in closing doors as the oshiya try and push every part of their body in. Watching that video I linked there reminds me of the movie "Tangled" and the part where Rapunzel tried to put....ouch.

Surprisingly, many people don't mind this whole "train sandwich" thing anymore. In fact, some don't even think this is that big of a problem. I guess they have gotten used to it by now. "There is a tolerance that if the person next to you falls asleep and their head kind of lands on your shoulder, people just put up with it. That happens a lot," Barren tells CNN. Yikes. You better not be picky in Tokyo, Japan! Anyway, since you have an idea about what I'm talking about now, I have a very important question for you. Honestly, I want to know why the people don't build more trains there. If you can tell me why that would be very helpful. Because, seriously, does the whole city only have ONE TRAIN that takes people to work in the mornings?