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Q: what it is with people on electric scooters?
they dont care about people on the foot path,they ride at you and not around.run red lights.etc etc etc.
I was pushing my son in the push chair almost near the foot path(i was about to walk onto the foot path) and this Chinese woman with a kid on the back of her scooter comes from the other side of the road and almost hits the push chair.
she rode on to the foot path and stopped at the bakery.I ran up to her and I gave her shit and gave her the middle finger,she didnt bat an eyelid.didnt even care.
I got swiped on zebra crossings, myself. Always some entitled bimbo on an e-bike. You're lucky the scooter driver didn't decide to blame you for her mistake - some of them have the gall to blame victims.
If this shit happens while I'm holding my son, she's better not make the mistake of stopping. I'll push her off her bike and bend the handles!
RobRocks:
I swear I will deck the person next time,I am not a violent person.
Wow, Chinese people don't give a shit, while I never!
I've various theories, which are not mutually incompatible:
#1 I mind my own business, and I assume that others do the same. If everybody mind its own business, then I feel quit free to act like I want, not much constraints or hassle.
#2 What is projected in the immediate future is one own need and solutions, without including side-consequences which does not include myself.
#3 Nobody told me it was wrong to , and most does it. I feel genuinely innocent of any offense.
#4 I don't care what other think. I don't know them, they don't know me. I never had trouble, so I know what I'm doing.
andy74rc:
#5: motorcycles are forbidden in my city, and I'm too lazy to pedal, so lets cut the corner and get an electric scooter/bicycle.
I taught one the other day that German engineers design better brakes than Chinese. As it is not an American car, it doesn't have the "Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are" stupid stickers, but this dude all of a sudden appeared very close.
But then again, they are not that special, today while waiting to park at a supermarket, a woman on a bike bumped into the side mirror of the car, didn't stop even though she almost fell, another woman slammed her handbag against the side of the car in front, a handbag with lots of metal brackets.
Inside the supermarket a woman ran into my shopping cart with hers.
People are just careless or clumsy.. They never apologize. It happens so often.
andy74rc:
I'll be waiting for one once I'm back to my own country....
I still haven't figured out if the cause is social or racial but the key issue here is a lack of spacial awareness. Same as when there is a queue.....I've had people stood so close to me that we were almost Siamese twins. The majority of Chinese people seem to have no clue of anything going on around them outside a half meter radius.
diverdude1:
yeah, I hate when they press against me from behind.... I've turned around and pushed many of them away asking them if they 'like richard',, or if they 'are homo' ... friggin dipshits!
* btw. I don't care what anyone's sexuality is, just keep it to yourself or with those who choose to engage in it with u. can't just go up and rub against a hot girl on the metro can I ?
andy74rc:
Best way to make people keeping distance in a queue is to back kick on their tibiae, without turning around nor batting a eyelid. It usually works......
Short answer: They're Chinese. Longer answer: the prevailing cultural norm is to completely disregard people who aren't you (or at least family and friends) in favor of "Me first". If you want to get from one point to another, just go. If people are in the way, push through them, because it benefits you more to do so. Sure, you might cause injury by plowing into them with your scooter, but that's not your problem, and riding more carefully is inconvenient to you.
So, summarizing the consensus of opinion from above... (And certainly not unsupported by me.)
Chinese people are..................
Well, hell. If you've been here for very long you'll know the describing words that apply to Chinese people.
But the reality is that not all the negative describing words apply to all of them. And thank goodness for that.....
Otherwise our existence here would make no sense at all, whatsoever.
There is no license required and no education given, anyone can drive one. The people just drive with no regards. I got T-boned one night turning in my driveway by a scooter that was on the sidewalk and came out from behind a stand. He pinned me against the wall which he would have run straight into if I wasn't there. He must have been asleep.That started my Roadwarrior persona, no more Mr Niceguy, I'd try to kick guys in the head after that, but usually just kicked their scooter enough to make them wobble. You should see their faces. I've driven big motorcycles since I was a teenager and was always a maniac on wheels. They just don't look or care. Same with car drivers and most have no skill, can't park a car. I blame this on low testosterone causing spacial impairment.
I havent had the scooty experience but I have seen in the public bus.. A number of people are waiting to get off at the next stop. but a silly person would push every one else and try to come to the front of the queue to get off..
