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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: What are the worst things you have done in China because you knew you could get away with it?
Yeah, we can't always be saints and role models all the time, can we?
I know being in China we tend to get a "holier art thou" mindset but face it, you probably messed around just because you could too sometimes.
What are some of the things you do in China that you KNOW are bad but do it anyway because you are pretty certain you can get away with it if someone calls you out on it?
Here is a list of some of the stuff I do/have done, that I know I shouldn't...
1) Sometimes walk around with a bottle of beer in my hands in the streets (at night of course... except when I...)
2) Go to Chinese lunches and get drunk off Baijiu then I would (when I taught ESL) sometimes go to class drunk... I think it actually made the class more interesting and exciting.
3) I got romantically involved with a student (BUT she was like 20 and not MY student, but a student at my school... in my defense I was only like 25 at the time).
4) I got romantically involved with a teacher at the same school afterwards (but in my defense she became my wife)
5) I would abuse being a foreigner in China to build up guan xi, but why shouldn't I?
So what are some things you have done and got away with it?
I like that I can run red lights on my scooter with 2 girls on it, more important I can actually have two women on my scooter, while drinking beer. I've never been drunk in China BTW. At home over one third of a beer will get you a days suspension, plus tows etc, what bullchips. Like there aren't menatlly impaired people trying to drive with no restrictions now?
Other things I can get away with, in 6 months I had *** **** *** *****, sometimes doubles and I can ** it for ****** **** **** *** **** ** and I don't think its expensive.
Not sure about the worst things I have done......but I certainly enjoyed doing the best things.....
If I posted the worst things here, I'd never be allowed in China again. To be fair, self-defense is something I take very seriously.
Here are some of the more "tame" things:
1. Beat the ever-loving shit out of my wife's parents and brother. It's mainly her brother who instigated all of this crap and started the whole thing; I forgive her parents, but not him -- he's a criminal with ties to the triad... part of the reason I had so much trouble with them.
2. Bluffed the police into thinking the U.S. government needed my wife's passport so they wouldn't take it away from her, which they were trying to do at the time. They were too scared to touch it at that point.
3. Talking hookers down on the price and then asking them to leave.
I just hate paying 10-15 yuan per drink in a restaurant. Now I just bring my own tea bags and ask for hot water.
The waiters just laugh it off as being "clever."
At my old school I drank a few beers with my students in the middle of campus. They were senior middle school kids: 18 years of age and over. So please no hate mail.
I pissed in the stairwell. Defence is, I was lost at the time.
mike695ca:
Hahaha awsome. About 2 years ago i was lost near this really rural area in between towns and i got the shits so bad. Like stop what your doing cuz its coming now. There was no buildings for miles. I had to squat under an overpass. It was horrible. I had to hse money to wipe......
royceH:
I don't think you needed to use the money in that way. I've read that Chinese money is the most contaminated in the world. I mean, how filthy must the money be to be the dirtiest in the whole bloody world! What a bad spot to have found yourself in...sorry to hear about it. I'd shout you a beer if I could.
Among the bad things I did was jaywalked, litter, jump queue....all learnt here. Back home all these are offences punishable with a fine, starting from $500. We've earned the dubious title of being a "fine" city so much so that tourists buy T shirts emblazoned with the words "A FINE CITY"! The trouble is no one here cares about this, it's an accepted behavior. When I clear my tray at Mackers' everyone stares at me. I still feel uncomfortable not doing it.
Big silent fart in the elevator. I couldn't hold it in. Smelled bad. Colleagues said nothing.
In my defense: It was in tropical summer heat with sweat dripping down my hair and neck.
juanisaac:
Your colleagues gave your butt some "face." They are very respectful of you.