Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Overheard in Taiwan

CKS Memorial Hall station, copyright by me.

At Taipei's Metro subway of Chiang Kai Shek Memorial station, a pair of couple on the elevator:

Girl: why are you pulling me to the right and not standing by my side?
       “你為什麼把我拉到右邊,又不站在我旁邊?”

Guy: Don't act like the Mainland people.
        “別像大陸人一樣”

Girl: What about the Mainland people?
        “大陸人怎麼了”

Guy: They stand on the left side of the elevator.
        “他們都站在電梯左邊。”


Note: It's very comfortable walking on the street in Taiwan, and especially using the elevator. EVERYONE stands on the right side and gives way to people who are in "rush minute/ hour" to run on the left side. I only encountered once where 2 ladies were 'blocking' the way on the left side of the elevator standing next to their friend(s), and later overheard their conversation and found out they are not Taiwanese :-)

Taiwan is awesome!

Korea, can you ever achieve that???

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