Young boy: Can we go?
Mother: Wait a second, there's a car coming.
Boy: Ha ha!
Mother: Don't "ha ha" me.
Boy: I was laughing at the other guy who almost got run over.
— Oimachi Station, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. Overheard by The Japan Times On Sunday
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