Where the Air is Sweet

     Walking down my hill this morning I got this *flash* and I suddenly realized why Japan sometimes seems so familiar. Living in Japan is like living on Sesame Street. Not all the time, mind you, but often. This is because most people in my area really dress the part of their profession/station in life. As I was walking down the street, I was helped on my way by a construction worker waving a lightsaber to direct traffic, wearing a light blue jumper with reflective tape all over it and a yellow plastic hard hat. The entire crew were dressed just as nicely. I saw a chef buying vegetables, and he was dressed in a full length white apron over white clothes, and a huge, tall chef hat. the policemen and women wear navy blue suits and hats at all times, with white gloves. Taxi drivers wear ties, if not suits, white gloves and conductor caps. Nurses at Ava's doctor's office wear pink dresses and white, frilly pinafores. The ladies at the supermarket all wear a dark blue and white uniform, and all the school kids are dressed in such a way that you can tell which school they go to, especially the really young ones - I've seen preschoolers wearing full suits and captain hats, carrying pokemon back packs.