Saturday, October 29, 2016

This would have been an excellent night to spend in the streets

It rained all day and I was lazy. I stayed up to watch f1 and God's football team, but I probably would have been awake anyway. During a lull in the television sporting schedule, I went for a beer walk (I still haven't had one in the house. A minor victory for responsible drinking, then). The night was surprisingly crisp and windy, like typhoonish weather. Of course, I still had on stubbies and thongs, but it's downright cold for taiwan. I saw a woman pushing a small child in a stroller, which is unusual in most societies at 2 am, but not here. Another thing rmj pointed out last time was that the taiwanese are probably taking random photos of us on the MRT and sidewalk much in the same way that we might take photos of people doing "asian things" in the west, like squatting in a circle and smoking cigarettes in business suits, themselves taking photos of the front of a mcdonald's or of a sandwhich on a tray inside, or of them holding small children over a grate in order to urinate or deficate. Ok, not all asian nationalities indulge in all of these passtimes, but those were the first three that came to mind that I might document in my motherland. I can't imagine why they would want to take a photo of me. Never seen a double chin before?

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