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Stuart
- The Clopser -
China
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 Posted - 12/17/2003 : 18:00:01
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Does anyone ever have surreal days once in while??
Last week the wife and I went for a long weekend to Hainan Island in the south of China for a relaxing break. It was a lovely place and we had such a good time that we didn't want to come back to Beijing.
But things went a little weird when we were leaving on Monday night. The guy from the travel agency was due to pick us up at the hotel to take us to the airport at 8:00pm. Our flight was at 9:40pm. By 8:10pm there was no sign, so the wife gave him a call. By 8:30pm he has still not arrived, so after a few frantic calls he finally arrived. The wife thought that he looked drunk, but seeing as we had less that an hour before we flew we let it pass.
As we were pulling out of the hotel driveway onto a main road, the driver (not looking at where he was going) pulled infront of an oncoming bus. Luckily the bus swerved (it was going pretty fast) but it cracked the front side panel of the car, smashing most of the windows and propelling us over the other side of the road. Had it hit us full on the side (where the wife was sitting) it could have been very serious. Diplomatic Stu made sure the wife was o.k. then launched into a tirade of abuse at the taxi driver. Had we more time I think I would have belted him.
Anyway, this is drawing on... we got to the airport in another taxi and found there was a 3 hr delay. When the plane eventually arrived there was a mad stampede to get on the plane first as the Chinese have absolutely no concept of queueing in an orderly fashion. We managed to get onto the plane and were waiting for it to take off when suddenlt people started standing up and looking towards the front, where a fight had kicked off. One guy was shouting at another, and another guy was being held back whilst throwing punches into thin air. This lasted for about 15 minutes.
We finally got back to Beijing, got back to our apartment building to find that they had shut down the escalator. So at 4:00am we had to climb 12 floors all the way up to our apartment.
All together a strange day.... anyone ever had a day like that.
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TheCroutonFuton
- Mr. Setlists -
USA
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Posted - 12/17/2003 : 18:03:09
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hahaha, that rocks. Yeah, I had a day like that in Belgium. A friend of my dad's was showing us around...we accidentally got on a wrong exit...so he did a U-Turn and ended up in the middle of the highway with a semi-truck coming at us. The truck driver was on his cell phone...I could see him scream, drop his cell phone, grab with both hands onto the wheel and swerve out of the way. Very crazy.
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TheCroutonFuton
- Mr. Setlists -
USA
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Posted - 12/17/2003 : 18:03:53
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ah, and "hahaha, that rocks" as in that you got to experience that without any harm.
"Join the Cult of Gunn / And Then You'll Be Destined to be a Rock and Roll Star of Epical Proportions!" |
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
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Posted - 12/17/2003 : 18:10:51
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Wow. Stuart and Crouton, very glad you're ok!
I though I was having a surreal day today until I read those stories. I found a "barking" tree frog in our yarrow plant (which we moved into the house months ago). The people at the pet store said they can't imagine how it managed to survive for this long, and had a hard time believing the story. It was burrowed in the dirt and must have gotten hungry, since it's not very cold in our house. So now we have a frog, aquarium and moss and pineapple plants and crickets chirpin and all. I should be careful, I remember saying I really wanted a frog several months ago...
 Swedish Chef's "Dumpling of Wisdom": Øder tis moodle in der noggin tu smacken der ouchey und vinger-slingers ur to smacken-backen und fix de morkin, yøobetcha! |
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MangyKid
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Posted - 12/17/2003 : 18:13:55
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| that's not called "strange" that's called "shitty". I wouldn't want to have a day like that. |
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