Hey,
I’ve had random Taiwanese strangers sit on my parked scooter to have a cigarette. The ashes that land on my scooter aren’t noticeable and nothing gets damaged, but I have mixed feelings. I don’t know if this is a Taiwanese thing I should just let go…I personally don’t like strangers hanging around, or using my property and I know this would not be acceptable in Canada.
What do you guys think?
Very common. Let it go.
The usual thing to do is to run at them brandishing a U-lock and screaming incomprehensibly.
Yeah, but let’s be creative. How about grabbing the offenders and using their own hands to slap them senseless (“Smack! Why are hitting yourself? Smack! Oh, that was a goodie”). Then, the customary follow them home, burn the house down, and sell the womenfolk into slavery.
My God, what am I doing with all this macho bullshit. I ride a wussy scooter. I’ve been in Taiwan so long that I’m starting to think that it is normal.
So, just fantasize about giving them a kicking, smile at them, and let it go. Within minutes of riding away from your parking space, there will be something else to be pissed off about.
people have scooters in canada?
Try this:
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I’ve had random Taiwanese strangers sit on my parked moose to have a cigarette. The ashes that land on my moose aren’t noticeable and nothing gets damaged, but I have mixed feelings. I don’t know if this is a Taiwanese thing I should just let go…I personally don’t like strangers hanging around, or using my moose and I know this would not be acceptable in Canada. [/quote]
Try this:
[quote]
I’ve had random Taiwanese strangers sit on my parked moose to have a cigarette. The ashes that land on my moose aren’t noticeable and nothing gets damaged, but I have mixed feelings. I don’t know if this is a Taiwanese thing I should just let go…I personally don’t like strangers hanging around, or using my moose and I know this would not be acceptable in Canada. [/quote][/quote]
I would hazard a guess that those “strangers” were in fact “mounties” and they weren’t smoking at all but were actually drinking “Maple syrup”.
I’d be pissed off. Nobody has the right to sit on my scooter without my permission.
Try this:
[quote]
I’ve had random Taiwanese strangers sit on my parked moose to have a cigarette. The ashes that land on my moose aren’t noticeable and nothing gets damaged, but I have mixed feelings. I don’t know if this is a Taiwanese thing I should just let go…I personally don’t like strangers hanging around, or using my moose and I know this would not be acceptable in Canada. [/quote][/quote]
I would hazard a guess that those “strangers” were in fact “mounties” and they weren’t smoking at all but were actually drinking “Maple syrup”.[/quote]
Look, incomprehensible humor like this drives women away. Quit it, then PM me and tell me what the hell it’s supposed to mean. :s
Yeah, that was my natural reaction too. And I was pissed off because oncoming cars shouldn’t have the right to turn left in front of me, cutting me off. And so on. Eventually I discovered that I had high blood pressure and was spending all my time pissed off. It isn’t worth it.
Be considerate to others and put a basket on your scooter so they may drop their garbage there.
:roflmao:
Scooters are public domain in Taiwan -like the top of your shoes or roof top apartments.
Let them sit and flick ashes on your bike, you may feel free to vomit on them.
Motorcycles-now that’s a different story. I’ve chased a construction crew down the street with a baseball bat with nails in it because they were fucking with my ride. It wasn’t a MACHO thing to do it was the RIGHT thing to do. Sitting on someone’s $500,000 NT, over taxed, well waxed bike is just asking for trouble.
You know I’m not a macho guy. I like Gene Kelly musicals, wear expensive aftershave-hell I even kiss my mother every time I see her.
But I 'd kick her fat ass too if she was sitting on my bike! :tic:
[quote=“OKao”]Hey,
I’ve had random Taiwanese strangers sit on my parked scooter to have a cigarette. The ashes that land on my scooter aren’t noticeable and nothing gets damaged, but I have mixed feelings. I don’t know if this is a Taiwanese thing I should just let go…I personally don’t like strangers hanging around, or using my property and I know this would not be acceptable in Canada.
What do you guys think?[/quote]
Brace yourself lucky. When they sit on the hood of my car, they mostly spit binlang juice aside smoking and driking kaoliang.
OK in winter time to clean it off, but a whole other story in summer time :raspberry:
As mentinned in other threads, in Taiwan you “share” things , so also your scooter sadle 
I must have been here too long, because I’ve been known to sit on random parked scooters. Not smoking on them though, and I usually pick a crappy looking one to sit on.
NOW I know why of all the bloody scoots around, MINE was the one somebody would be sitting on !! Always !!
The good thing was that it NEVER got stolen !
Catch them sitting on your scooter, sidle up, bat your eyelids in a come-hither manner and sit on their laps - tit for tat.
Might discourage them a bit…
I wouldn’t mind them sitting on my scooter as long as they weren’t smoking or drinking. However, all too often that’s exactly what they are doing. I observed one offender finishing his lunch-box, his Mr. Brown coffee can (the blue one which tastes of road grit) and then stub his fag out on the foot plate.
He then promptly left, leaving all his rubbish behind on my scooter. While having a few stern words with the chap I realised he was my dentist who had performed an exceptionally well-done root canal only a few weeks previously.
You just can’t win sometimes. At the risk of having painful treatment in the future I let it go, but I did receive a Pei Say and he did collect up all his crap.
I do tell people to piss off when they sit on my bike(s) now, and I do get very upset when they get moved. There is no excuse for treating other peoples’ property like it’s a park bench.
I live next to a popular disco…actually more than one. So it must have been in the early hours of the morning when one particulary scruffy uncultured hooligan with a crewcut stumbled along the sidewalk mashing betel nut until it became as mushy, juicy, and red as possible. And when the betel nut spit could not be contained any longer – he just happened to be standing next to my large white scooter.
'Cause that’s what I saw in the morning – a large red splattering all over. But there was no uncouth scoundrel around to beat so…all I could do was look at it and say “damn”.
That was a few weeks ago and I haven’t washed that spot yet.
…and yeah…just let it go. Scooter seats are soft and…where else is that smoker going to sit? Take it easy.
Some Taiwanese told me about their adventures in Japan (about 10 years ago).
Many Japanese are motorcyle fanatics and some have beautiful choppers, Harleys, etc.
So, here come some excited Taiwanese checking out a motorcycle parked along the street. No owner around. ‘Hey! nephew, take my picture on this motorcycle.’ Uncle takes a clumsy swing of his leg over the seat of the gleaming bike. It’s more glamorous looking than anything he’d ever seen in Taiwan or anywhere.
Let me kick the kickstand so I look cooler…yeah it looks like I’m riding. Hey…whooa…Ayo ! The bike leans too far to one side. It’s heavier than uncle imagined and he can’t control it. CRaSh! The bike is laying on its side …and here comes the owner.
The owner was naturally angry and wanted to know what the hell these people thought they were doing sitting on his bike and then letting it bang onto the road. He insisted that they pay for the damages.
They did. And they said the repair bill was expensive – probably had to replace a lot of chrome.
So, the days of their sitting on strangers motorbikes is over.
And people wonder why I’m very happy about big bikes being treated as cars for parking. On the rare occasion when there was no option but to park in a scooter bay I would have to park askew across two or three bays to avoid blocking the main road. Within five minutes I was guaranteed to come back and find two scooters, a farmer bike and bicycle wedged into every empty nook of the parking boxes along with A Huang and his five kids twanging the comms aerial like a guitar. And hey, if your kids want to sit on/play with my bike I will happily oblige - just be polite and ask first :s I’m waiting for the day when A Huang sends his sprogs to jump all over the thing then blames me for the third degree burns they get off the exhaust.