Three chocolate croissants, please!

I came across a group of Japanese tourists yesterday as I was hurrying to a meeting in the city. They surprised me by being uncharacteristically un-Japanese. I love the way people behave in Japan, the politeness, the silence, the respect for each other, the attention paid to the neighbour, the lack of body contact… I am sure you get my drift. Yesterday's tourists were boisterous and behaved as if they literally owned the place. As I walked through their group, I found myself being shoved...