NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE

I am a native New Yorker
I have ridden in hundreds of NYC Taxi's
Once in a while, there are nervous NYC Taxi moments.

But...

Riding in a Chinese Taxi - Frightened my hair white!!!
I have never been so terrified in my life.
I have never been so convinced that I would die in a fiery car crash
as I was yesterday.

There are roads in China
Wide Highways and Byways
And there are lines designating the lanes
I dont think that the drivers see them at all.
they straddle them
they try to fit 2 or more cars inthe same space in one lane
I think that swerving in and out of traffic is a skills part of the Chinese Drivers Test

Semi-trucks have the tendency to STOP - in the middle of the road- when the rest of us are speeding along at 80km/hr

Dont worry if you miss your left turn - the Taxi driver will stop in the left lane
back up
and try again!!

Oh look - pedestrians in the road
Do you think drivers stop for them here??
No
Walking across the road yesterday at lunch
from the factory to the restaraunt
Was like playing a game of FROGGER
Luckily - I won

The moral of this story is:

I will never be nervous in a NYC Taxi ever again.