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Blocked by the Great Firewall
I can't connect to Facebook or Twitter out here in Beijing. On the plus side, I'm planning on seeing the real Great Wall sometime this trip. :)
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My near death experience in Shanghai 2007
So, I was catching up with some friends' blogs, and my buddy Sean recounts the time we almost died in Shanghai, much more eloquently than I could have. It's even a cliffhanger in two parts!
Here's the SPOILER:
"Because this woman, as gleeful and enthusiastic as she was to be motoring us about, was a lunatic. We would squeeze into lanes that did not exist, squished in between a bus and an enbankment, and she was just smile away. She'd put the car in park and scoot up on top of the steering wheel to wipe away a leprechaun-hand sized corridor of visibility through the fogged up windshield. And I gotta tell ya, there's a part of me that was really charmed by all the effort.
Until she skidded into an intersection like she was performing the stunt routine for a Goodyear Aqua-tread commercial and Froggered us halfway through ten lanes of terrifying cross traffic. That we are, ass-a-kilter pointed at a forty five degree angle inside of the far-easts largest intersection. And traffic is just racing by. Well, that is until one car wasn't as agile as the others in swimming right around us. And slammed on his own breaks and fucking hit us.
So what does she do? "Oh no, I've been in a car accident, I hope my patrons and the other vehicle are all right!" That's what a sane person would think. She fucking giggles. Yep, a shrill little giggle and then she slowly drags our car out of the intersection like some sort of retarded four-wheeled sloth. And away we went.
So that's how we almost died."
BTW, Sean screamed like a girl... actually, so did I.
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