Tonight I left my PDA on the #207 bus from Neihu, at about 7:10pm, on the stop next to the Tonghua Street night market. The bus company’s number isn’t answering (which isn’t surprising given the time).
Do I try to contact them tomorrow, or should I just write it off?
Edit: I managed to get through to an English speaking operator the third time around, who passed me on to the station operator for the #207 line. Unfortunately he couldn’t speak English, so I called the original bus number again (the general number). The girl there very kindly offered to call the station operator for me, and explain the situation. I’m waiting for her to call me back.
She asked me if I knew the bus license plate number, or the number or name of the bus driver, but of course I had no clue (who remembers those details?).
Absolutely unbelievable. I just came off the phone, and the charming chick who did all the running around for me has told me that the PDA has been found, and I can pick it up tomorrow at the Neihu terminal station.
I remember I left a backpack full of my camera stuff, portable game system etc etc in a phone booth while in Tokyo, and hours later when I realised that I left it there I ran back and sure enough - it was still sitting there, untouched…
It’s certainly a pleasant counterpoint to the number of threads deriding the Taiwanese as money-fixated, self-centered, backstabbing, dishonest, xenophobic ‘monkeys’.
Those kind of statements are only made by people inside Taiwan. If you live anywhere else, you recall events like these and the general air of generosity Taiwanese display in most matters.
Well put it this way, “money-fixated, self-centered, backstabbing, dishonest, xenophobic ‘monkeys’” would be a description I’d think more useful for the folks of HK.
Those kind of statements are only made by people inside Taiwan. If you live anywhere else, you recall events like these and the general air of generosity Taiwanese display in most matters.
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Yup. People over here would have casually slit your throat for less, never mind hand it in to lost & found. I find myself thinking “when this working shit is all over I might retire in Taiwan!”
My wallet fell out of my pocket a few months ago while riding an Aloha bus. It had all my credit/debit/ID cards plus a substantial amount of cash. I went to the service desk with a heavy heart thinking about how long it would take me to re-apply for all of those cards but had a complete and utter shock when she got off the radio and said ‘yep, the driver found it. Come back in two hours and collect it.’
I’ve dropped four cell phones in cabs in Taibei. Three of them have been returned. One guy actually got out of his car, walked through the restaurant, and found me. He also refused a reward.
Those things arent cheap…!
