I decided that today I would be the model foreigner. I got on some nice trousers with an ironed short sleeved shirt, and a pair of good leather shoes. As soon as I was in the elevator I said good morning to everyone and to my surprise everyone said good morning back. On my way into Taipei I was extra polite about letting people go before me onto the elevator and into metro carriages, basically everywhere I went I was kind, courteous and friendly. The response by the locals was about 90 percent really.positive and the other ten percent just thinking I was weird or maybe they just hated foreigners and people in general.
It will be back to the tank top and track suit bottoms tomorrow but I might do this “be friendly to everyone day” again in the near future. People reacted very positively with.a few exceptions ! Generally all around good energy and more happiness.
Norman Vincent Peale would be proud. Maybe you can make Friendly Fridays a thing.
You get out what you put in. I got a few strange looks of suspicion on the MRT last week, trying to offer my seat to people older than me ( not many left), and was given " No need thankyou" replies. Made me feel better and I _think_it was appreciated. They probably thought "Oh a Foreigner without a tattoo on his head, who isn’t flipping the Bird…
Do us all a favour and do the friendly stuff in a tank top and thongs. We don’t want just well dressed foreigners getting respect.
I was contemplating a Mankini for my next MRT adventure . I somehow think it would be in Apple Daily
Maybe Banana Daily would be a more appropriate venue?
are you talking about those miniature ones?
I don’t wear thongs I wear Adidas trainers and track suit bottoms with a Tank Top or wife beater vest
I don’t know, man. You tell me.
I just tried to welcome a new viewer, explaining that we were a well-balanced bunch of measured individuals. Incorrigible are you.
I guess you kind of have a point. But I’m not the one hatching plans to ride the MRT in a banana hammock, so…
so anyone want to help me do this be polite on Friday thing. Create a movement
We can all be friends. Even TG and I disagree on Politics but it would not stop him buying me a drink. His reluctance to part with money probably would .
Why just on Fridays?
Little steps, little steps. Too many good vibes all at once can backfire.
Yeah why just Fridays, this will free up shiadoa to wear Mankini any day.
The juxtaposition of “knob” and “mankini” is giving me a strange feeling…
oh damn. 
Maybe a taipi.
I’m in. I’ve stopped kicking old people to the curb here when they get in my way. In fact, I stood aside this morning when an old gentleman with a cane approached on a sidewalk just wide enough for one. It was an oddly exhilarating feeling I must admit.