When Logan & Mariko sit down to eat, Logan jams his chopsticks into his food, the picks up a spoon to begin eating. Mariko reaches over, removes the chopsticks & places them on the table beside his food while explaining that upright chopsticks are a bad omen. The conversation continues & Logan continues using his spoon to eat, never touching the chopsticks. As the conversation winds down, Mariko says something like "You don't understand because you are not Japanese." As she says this, she reaches over and again removes the (now) upright chopsticks from Logan's food. But how did they get there again?