When we were traveling in China on those overnight trains, it wasn’t the hard bunks or the cold draft or even the occasional phelgm hacker that kept us awake at nights. It was the tune of the loud snorers left and right, top and bottom, that left us cranky and half awaked when we arrived at the next city on a cold foggy morning.
Apparently, snoring isn’t just a problem for the overnight train passenger. It’s reached pandemic proportions that the Chinese army is now cracking down on snorers because they deem “the nasal sound of chronic snorers disturbs collective life”.
Before you draw up the next protest poster and congregate at the local Chinese Embassy, there will be no blood-letting. Snorers, along with those with “fashionable tattoos” just won’t be allowed in the army.
