Taxi's in asia.
really, you learn to place your life in a driver, most of whom really need glasses. In this country traffic laws don't really count for much.
so after living here for almost 10 months, i really thought i was numb to almost dying in a car crash. maybe i ran out of adrenaline or something. that was until yesterday when we we got a ride from driver X...
Me, Rob, Ashleigh and Justin all pilled in a taxi to head back to school. i knew i was in for something special when he pealed out of the parking lot and almost hit a pedestrian. good thing they are really good at blaring their horns. the ride continued on with him swerving in and out of cars like crazy, speeding up to only slam on his breaks at a traffic light. one time X beat the rest of the cars then proceed to hawk a loogie out the window in this confidence. since i sat in the back seat on his side so i ducked to avoid the spit particles. he laughed at our revulsion.
After getting stuck behind some slow trucks, X lost it and passed them and stepped on it. I have no idea how fast he was going, but it seemed pretty fast. we were speeding to a blind intersection and a car pulled out, we honk and swerved around it. at all of our intakes of air the driver laughed and said (in east asian):
X: Its nothing!!
Rob: Its nothing?
X: hahaha, you are so afraid! hahaha
so needless to say, i was glad to get out of the car, even though i had to doge another loogie while doing so. yayyy!
