Kind of the best thing about being an adult is that you can have weaker people do crazy stuff even for no reason (though it’s a double-edged sword - one is seldom the lead dog for long). In Hitoyoshi, where it was at the time 2°C, adults decided it would be really fun to have a bunch of kindergarteners of ages Kumanichi reports to range from “0 to 6 years” run around shirtless over distances ranging from 20 to 1,110 meters. I’m guessing that the 20-meter course was reserved for the shirtless 0-year olds and that they didn’t actually run, though the article does not clarify this; on the other hand, when you’re zero and shirtless and the temperature is a scant 2° over your age, it’s a good time to learn. This was reportedly the 38th time they’ve done this and might be a major factor in explaining rural depopulation. - William
Kind of the best thing about being an adult is that you can have weaker people d…
