The List of Things that you can't rely on in Taiwan

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The thing that I think I can’t rely on is so-called ‘Organic Food’.

“regular teaching hours”

Foreigners, of course. :wink:

Advertised Internet Speeds

Electric and plumbing work.

Here, you can’t rely on:

New, good products staying on the market permanently (e.g. Salt & Vinegar Lays at 7-11)
Cool, kick-ass businesses staying open permanently (e.g. Frying Scotsman)

Basically anything that’s important or useful.

Timely pay.

On-time deliveries of any sort.

[…]

water pressure

being able to buy cheap cheese

quiet at night for sleeping purposes

that you won’t die on the nation’s roads

having no hair in your meal

can I go on?

romanization

directions from strangers

Legislators to do what they were elected for.

The police to enforce traffic laws.

Oh man - that’s the very worst. Drives me batsh*t nuts every time. I swear it’s a huge conspiracy designed to see how many times I can be sent down some backstreet or to some random stairwell. Then of course I forget this grand scheme, only to to repeat it all over again at some future date… OK, finding my happy place…

Here are a couple more:

Your request for any alteration in a food order to actually be carried out.
Any clerk in any business not cutting you off to answer the phone.

I would change that to “Your request for any food order to actually be carried out as per the menu.”

That things goes as planned.

salads

Taxi Drivers.

Oh…and a girl who has no sense of direction like me with a unreliable taxi driver.

That the english language “newspapers” here are worth NT$15.
What utter fishwraps in quality and “reportage.”

Any what idiot nut-sack biter is responsible for the idiot nut-sack biter “Jimmy Nehru”, or whoever it is, splattering its juvenile idiocy in a ‘public’ forum?

That refugee from a suburban shopper should be given gaoliang enemas in a public square. (Both of them)