Originally Posted by ksandness
The one gesture I sometimes find myself making is the "chop-chop" gesture that people use when moving through a crowd or crossing a street.
Or how about the one where you put your hand on your forehead, perpendicular to it (as if you were imitating a shark fin), grit your teeth, and suck wind, trying to get out of the back of a crowded elevator?
A good friend of mine, his first job out of Cornell hotel school was a waiter at the Imperial Hotel. He's got all of the aisatsu down pat, it is hilarious.