Through the Eyes of a Wombat

The irony hasn't escaped me that Japan, which is renowned around the world for producing electronic goods and automobiles, has such a large amount of its population unable to use a computer or drive a car.

To be fair, there are exceptions, but the majority of the people I work with, all of whom are teachers, real teachers in a real school, have no idea what computers are used for.
Last Friday there was a large commotion behind me as one teacher was explaining to another teacher that computers can copy and paste words and pictures, removing the need to re-type things. This was, apparently, earth-shattering information, and bizzare because the teacher in question was under 35, and therefore should have used a computer at some stage beforehand.
I have been de-facto tech support to another teacher most of the last fortnight. I realise that he is old, but I should not have to be on standby to help him out every single time he want to save a document to his USB stick. The poor old fellow still insists on saving documents on floppy disks, because he is worried that hard drives dont save things properly. (How can they? You cant see them...)

I am glad that I dont have to drive in this country, for it appears the roads are hazardous areas full of trucks stopping in random areas blocking the roads, little old ladies walking down the centre of a busy two way street, at night, in dark clothing, and bicycles cutting in front of traffic with no warning. Perhaps, in part, it's related to all the dashboard signs and labels in the vehicles being printed in English, in a country where almost no one actually speaks English...