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March 08, 2004

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To the driver of the Disneyland bus who on Friday night would not let me board despite being stuck in traffic at a red light 10 metres from the stop and despite leaving the stop 2 minutes before the scheduled time, I hope the friggin' door is broken from my constant bashing and may you be stuck in traffic for the rest of your days, you rule-bound, narrow-minded, pathetic stickler. Shrugging your gloved hands does not constitute an appropriate answer, especially when the following bus gladly took on passengers while waiting at the same lights.

Don't be counting on your lai see next year, buddy.

 posted by Simon on 03.08.04 at 10:36 AM in the




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Comments:

oh yeah....great revenge.
you musta been standing there, shaking your fist...yelling "I'm gonna blog about this".
He must have been petrified!

oh, and did you really actually give him lai see this year?

 posted by: cf on 03.08.04 at 06:45 PM [permalink]

That happened to me once. The driver actually looked at me, shook his head no, and smiled. I wanted to kill him.

 posted by: betsy on 03.08.04 at 10:58 PM [permalink]

I've felt this way myself when it has happened, but after it was explained to me why, I am a little more forgiving. As I understand it, the police in HK have been known to ticket this sort of thing at the drop of a hat if they see it. The bus driver eats the fine himself. And on their salary they just can't afford it.

Strange that in some ways this can be a wide-open no rules, anything goes type of place, but there are those rules that are enforced to the letter.

And they tend to discriminate against the local Chinese (holdover from the colonial mindset?) ie enforce more readily against them than against Gweilos.

 posted by: kennycan on 03.09.04 at 08:39 AM [permalink]




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