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发表于 2011-9-2 17:00
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So today we went for a car ride.
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, n& K, b0 A5 Q8 B1 y, V- D- Y" _ Now I have been driving in Canada for over 35 years, in some of the wildest cities (Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, New york, Detroit, LA etc etc) and I thought I knew all the tricks. But China is a trip into an of itself.
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When we got into Wifey's fathers van I was under the impression that we would be going for a leasurley ride through the streets of Jinan. And then the horns started. There was not a moment when there was no horn blaring. Now this may be hard to understand if you have never been in this type of environment, but in China, there is not a single moment when there is not a horn blaring. Now I am not talking about a beep-beep here and there. No No. This is the constant blaring of horns everywhere - the van I was in and every other vehicle on the road was CONSTANTLY basting the horn. Now, in Canada, you hit the horn only if the bastard around you does something really stupid (like cut you off) and you are pissed at them. Not in China though! In China, the horn is a way of life!
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I found this hard to undersrtand, and to handle. WTF? Is there any reason to honk your horn so much?
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m! _1 ]8 o! ]8 F R, y4 BSeriously, what is the problem here? I can remember pretty well all of the occasions I have had to use the horn in my life, and here I was in China hearing horns in front of me, beside me, behind me, in places I could not even identify. I could not believe my ears. It got annoying really fast. Here is the problem. When you drive around in Canada, if someone does something really stupid, you honk at them as a way of saying "You dumbs ass, what are you doing?" But not in China. In China, cutting people off, squeezing them out of a lane (which is sometimes 3,4 or 5 lanes depending on the time) is a way of life.
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Now I am the first to say that there is nothing that scares me, but let me tell you, driving in China is REALLY REALLY fuckin scarey. Wifey's dad is one of the coolest, nicest persons I have ever met. He is a very nice, gentle person who seems to have naught a care in the world. But get him into traffic, and he becomes the one of most aggressive people I have ever met. Now you have to understand that he has been in China all of his life, and to him, this is probably normal, but to see him cutting people off, squeezing them out of their lane, and just generally bullyjng his way around was as amazing as it was frightening. 7 Z7 i) c/ x5 T
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I try to keep my wife safe and away from danger as much as possible, She is after all the best thing in my life! But every time we went out for a spin an a car, whether it was with her Dad or a taxi or a friend, I feared for her life! Holy shit we are going to die! Or so I thought every 10 or 15 seconds of the ride we were in. It is completely insane. It was like being in a video game where you get points for blowing people off the road. |
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楼主: 个性小西红柿
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发表于 2011-9-2 11:18
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If it's for business or academic thesis, it will be very formal - I mean grammar will be very important then.
发表于 2011-9-2 14:09
