Well… So far so good. The scooter died about 2 miles from the house. It starts again but it dies again soon after.
She took a taxi. Like the gentleman that I am, I pushed the scooter to the nearest mechanic this evening. I asked the mechanic to be honest if he thinks the bike is just too old to repair. My wife will go find out sometimes tomorrow what the verdict is and my plan is to find an excuse to escape and go scooter shopping. I really hope the mechanic will not fix it!
If he fixes it, I’ll have to kill it again. I made my mind. This machine has to die. I hate having to pull a lie, but I know my wife and she would keep riding that coffin until it dies before she rides the new one. It’s dangerous! She can be very stubborn. She even doubles up our boy on it all the time… I hate that machine!
What I’m hoping for now is that when I give her the key to her new scooter she will just call ME a stubborn ass and take it.
Whats amazing is that it takes a group of men (and some women) seven or so pages to confound one single TW lady out of her scoot . They are inscrutable.
p.s. i say 7 pages because this thread aint done yet. oh no, the scooter will likely resurrect. They are indestruckable (nothing outside of a truck will kill em).
[quote=“tommy525”]Whats amazing is that it takes a group of men (and some women) seven or so pages to confound one single TW lady out of her scoot . They are inscrutable.
p.s. I say 7 pages because this thread aint done yet. oh no, the scooter will likely resurrect. They are indestruckable (nothing outside of a truck will kill em).[/quote]
Don’t give him ideas -but I don’t think slipping a hong bao to the local garbage detail party to “accidentally” back up onto it would be out of the question, right?
And now that we are on the truck thinghie, can’t you park it illegally somewhere, have it towed away and then erase the numbers on the floor?
[quote=“Icon”][quote=“tommy525”]Whats amazing is that it takes a group of men (and some women) seven or so pages to confound one single TW lady out of her scoot . They are inscrutable.
p.s. I say 7 pages because this thread aint done yet. oh no, the scooter will likely resurrect. They are indestruckable (nothing outside of a truck will kill em).[/quote]
Don’t give him ideas -but I don’t think slipping a hong bao to the local garbage detail party to “accidentally” back up onto it would be out of the question, right?
And now that we are on the truck thinghie, can’t you park it illegally somewhere, have it towed away and then erase the numbers on the floor?[/quote]
exactly. take the plates off and park it in front of a sogo or something. Some punk will take it or they will remove it for illegal parking. Or maybe a visiting english teacher?
true i think, plus if you took off the plates the tow truck company wont tow it because they know you dont want it. But maybe somebody will drive off in it?
I let my bud use my 50cc moped back in the day for 2 years without a license plate (it fell off) and it never got stolen. I think it finally fell apart somewhere in pingtung.
Probably still parked somewhere there.
p.s. hey thats an idea. ride it yourself to a place far far away (like taitung) and take the train back? )
That is why my “accidental” encounter with the garbage truck would be the perfect solution. An accident. Fate. That kind of thing. Happens all the time. Meipanfa.
If you do that, the scooter will be impounded and continue to rack up ‘parking fees’ forever. Sooner or later these have to be paid, with fines for non-payment and so on.
I like the phrase, ‘it’s easier to ask forgiveness than permission’. Arrange to buy a new scooter with a dealer you like but your wife doesn’t know. While you’re at it, tell him you an old scooter you’d like to scrap. He will be happy to take the old junker in as he will get the scrap payout from the govt., which is a small and not a big loss for you. Once the plates are turned in to the govt. the vehicle can only be re-registered after an inspection of it’s safety systems and emissions, which it will fail if it’s as shitty as described. ‘Borrow’ the wife’s chop or let the bike shop owner cut a temporary one to register the new scooter in her name and/or ‘bao fei’ the old one.When the new one is ready take the old POS there and make sure the owner gets it out of there asap. Tell the wife the scooter died and to go get it from the shop. When she gets there the boss gives her the key to the new one and informs her the old one has gone to meet it’s maker.
Make sure you put fresh flowers under the seat of the new scooter and have dinner ready / bottle of wine / viagra or whatever ready when she gets home.
Meanwhile, outside the tangled web of deceit and fighting to stay that way…
They hire Jogs for 100NT a day (well 12 hrs, actually) here in Tainan.
Age varies but they all seem to start, go and stop OK. Some are quite shiny.
I’d guess something similar must be available in Kaoshiung, or you could perhaps arrange a shinier hire/loan (with a view to purchase) from the scooter shop where its being “diagnosed”
That might be a less abrupt, confrontational route to eventual replacement, if you really won’t fix it, which I still think carries more karma/brownie points.
The hire place I use here in Tainan might do a long term deal (wouldn’t be worth doing daily hire to Kaoshiung, of course). If its of any interest I can enquire. The daughter speaks quite good English.
Have her family member or friend say something bad about the scooter with them not implying they know it’s hers.
Like “look at that heap of shit, who would want to ride that?”
Followed by a comment about the new scooter next to it.
You could then present the keys to her with her friend or family member there and have them give compliments etc.
It still starts!
