You know you’ve been driving in China when…
Paul Stowe put together a list of ‘you know when you’ve been driving in China too long when…’
- The indicator stalks on your car are just somewhere to hang another air-freshener
- The rear view mirror is permanently angled to your partners seat for her to put her makeup on.
- Door mirrors are just a inconvenience when cutting through tight gaps.
- As a passenger of a car, you stick your socked/non-socked feet out the window.
- It comes as a surprise when you finally reach the tollgate after a 30-minute queue that they might actually need some money.
- There are only two settings to your headlights – off and full beam, and you use them indiscriminately.
- After picking up your new leather seated vehicle you cover them with knitted seat covers (To protect them!).
- Traffic signals are merely a guide – not a rule.
- The ability to roll a cigarette, send a text message, read a map and pick your nose whilst performing a 3 point turn in the middle of traffic.
- When you find nothing wrong with reversing in the fast lane of a highway because you think you should have taken the last exit.
- You start looking at vehicle registrations in terms of lucky numbers.
- You don’t feel the need to change your tyres until you can see steel.
Are there anymore that our CCT Readership can come up with?
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When you cut up a police car and think to yourself “He’s not a *real* policeman anyway!”
You argue with the policeman that tickets you until you are blue in the face, any other country and you would have been shot dead in the face, or arrested on a terror charge.
When you see a moto cop ticketing someone up ahead and there are 2 cars in front of you…. what do you do? honk that horn because you KNOW the cop is already busy so he isn’t going to stop you to give you a 200 kuai fine.
When you truly believe that a Lexus is NOT a Toyota.
Or that all BMWs are made in Germany…
You know you’ve been driving in China to long when…………………. the hard shoulder becomes your preferred lane for passing.
You know you’ve been driving in China to long when……..you get the salute, you salute back.
Considering starting a complete new website dedicated to this topic – one that you can post photo’s and Chinese motoring storys!
What do you think?
I was thinking of sticking a section in the ever coming soon China Car Times forum, it could be a therapy session for China drivers.
I will leave it to you then Ash – I know how much you need the readership!!!
I dont want to piss on your parade! You know how long it takes for me to do anything.
Dont use Blogspot though!
AHAHAH, Great post and great comments too, really funny!
When you hawk up a gob of phlegm and instead of wondering ‘wtf am I supposed to do now?’ you calmly open the window and spit it out.
When you hawk up a gob full of phlegm……..
Cut me some slack, I have a terrible cold and an ear infection!
not out the window but in the passenger foot well
…..not looking if you have a passenger or not