dearshuaiguy

Dear Shuaiguy,

I hope i did not sound rude when I pointed out that I am not an expat. I guess i get quite touchy about that after having seen to many "so called expats" having behaved too badly in this country.

But i cannot always say I am a lot better. Sometimes you just have these days when you everyone just seems out to get to you. I guess you get that everywhere but here where everything is so much louder and complicated you just get to the melting point faster, do you know what i mean?

The other day I was in a taxi with 2 friends and it was raining like crazy, we were lucky we finally found one and we shared one taxi although we had to go to quite different directions.

The driver just went on for couple of hundred meters and then received a phone call from a friend. After he hung up he stopped by the side, turned around and said: sorry you guys have to get out here, my friend's car broke down and I need to go out help him".

We said that there is no way we will get a taxi now and that he at least should drive us somewhere where we can wait without getting totally wet.

He drove on for a bit but kept complaining that he has to go and and we kept saying that he does not have to bring us all the way but at least bring us to a place where we have a chance to wait in a dry and warm place.

But then he actually pushed my buttons when he said: " how can you be so inconsiderate and not understanding, I have to go and help my friend. "

What??? Us being inconsiderate, it was raining like crazy, my friends place was just 5 minutes away, his friends car broke down, but it was not a life threatening event and I actually had to go home urgently as well, but had already accepted that I would have to get out of the taxi at my friends place and then would have to wait for very until the rain was over.

So, I could not help but getting a little bit angry and loud with the driver and tell him that we are not the only one being inconsiderate and that throwing girls out in the rain at night would not be the noblest thing to do as well. The driver gave me an angry stare and it was about to get ugly between us.

Then luckily my friend saw that there was an empty taxi behind us, so we quickly changed cars.

Now the driver there was a really nice guy and agreed that the driver was acting inappropriate and was probably new...

He laughed with us and brought us to our destinations while chitchatting with us.

His friendly way made us calm down right away and made me remember again that there are good guys and bad guys just everywhere in the world and you should never make your judgements about a place by a bad encounter with a person.

It is up to you which type of people you surround yourself with and it has nothing to do with the country you live in...