American workaholics just don't want to crash their cars
MasaManiA - photos of sleeping Japanese on the way home from work "I want to tell you how much Japanese business man is tired."
The reasons you wouldn't see a whole lot of photos of Americans asleep on their way home from work is not because Americans don't get sleepy. I think most Americans drive their own cars to work and back, and therefore it would be inefficient in the extreme to sleep on their commute. The ones that do use public transportation live in big cities and are far too cautious and cynical to trust sleeping on it... As noted on BoingBoing, where it's also noted that in Japan, people actually have to be issued warnings to watch out for pickpockets.
Also, Americans are pretty overindulgent, and if we get sleepy, we just get hopped up on caffeine.
Anyway... I want to tell you how sleep inducing it is waiting around while on jury duty.
Michael R. naps while awaiting to be called during jury duty at the Luzerne County Courthouse in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, September 23rd 2002.
See, Americans sleep in public.
I've been called for jury duty twice now, (at my young age - yes twice already), and have spent about 3 weeks of my life not working and at the courthouse for jury duty, just waiting around... and waiting, and waiting, and waiting around... and waiting around... Talk about getting sleepy! (MasaManA link via my.bicycle)
posted by Chloe | Thursday 11 November 2004 12:47 PM
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