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Hey LP.net, I am not very active anymore, but I still lurk around here from time to time, though I do not play any more poker. Last years shot went bad, I could not even beat NL25 anymore (but I did not play a big sample, I think I should still be able to crush it, but that is not the point here), so I completely quit poker and try to get a university degree... I am almost there, already turned in my thesis, will have 3 more exams in February and if everything goes well I am will be a Bachelor of Science in 4 weeks...
So this is last night story, it's a bit long, but maybe you will enjoy the read, it's not about sluts though.
At the moment I am doing a internship in Shanghai/China and last night me and some friends at first, one friend later went clubbing. I get a wage from my company which is very good for Chinese standards, but drinking, clubbing and girls take lots of cash away, I took my last money (about $50) and went out that night. My Chinese account was empty with that and I can not take credit off it.
My friend lives near my apartment, but not exactly in the neighborhood, but we wanted to take a taxi together back after having drunk all night long. At that point, I had already spend most of my money, I had about $8 left, enough to split the bill for the cab home. Anyway, my friend got to know some ho and he took a taxi for himself. He wanted to make sure he could start with the foreplay already. He knew about my situation, so he gave me a 100 RMB note (about $15),allowing me to take a cab, too.
Somehow because of my retardation, I lost that note in the club. Now that was bad, but I thought I would be able to get some cash from the ATM from my European account, that ATM is near my apartment. I got into the taxi and told the driver where to go. Shanghai is really huge, so it took like forever, and in the end the bill was at like $12 or $13. I told him that I need to withdraw cash (I do not speak Chinese, so I showed him my Cash Card) and went to the ATM, but it's fucking China, and nothing is working as it should, no cash for me after several tries.
Basically, I am fucked, it's 4 o'clock in the morning, I am drunk as hell and I am not able to pay my cab driver, so what the fuck do I do? I do not feel like cheating my poor driver and I know that $13 can be a lot to simple employees in China, so I went back to the cab, gave him my last $8 and said "Sorry, but I did not get any cash" what he probably did not understand as Chinese taxi drivers speak English very poorly, like most Chinese people. Then I took a run into the darkness... Holy shit, screaming wheels and and a pissed off taxi driver ready to run me over, he was really fast coming after me with his taxi although I started my run for my life in the opposite direction as he was standing. He was shouting hellish swears at me. My adrenaline started pumping.
Now you have to know that Chinese people are really friendly towards "Lao wai" or westerners AS LONG as they can extract money from you. I am convinced that they can become very unfriendly and unpleasant when they realize that you cannot be their cashcow anymore or even owe them money, like I did in that moment. For sure I did not want to find out middle in the night in some dark road. I did not know whether he was calling the police or colleagues or whatever, but I thought it is a bad idea to get caught.
Another thing to take into consideration is the architecture of Chinese streets. You cannot simply vanish into the night, because there are fences and walls everywhere, you are forced to stay on the streets and if you want to enter your flat (they are in compounds most of the time, which can only be entered through gates. And these gates are protected by watchmen 24/7. I did not want my new nemesis to know which compound I live in and running by the watchmen in the night would not be a good idea either, so I took another direction. He was still behind me, I could hear his taxi. I took several 180 turns to get rid of him. Luckily there was a small passage at some point which I entered. The taxi driver did not get off his taxi, he was an old fatty anyway, I knew I could outrun him and he did probably know it, too.
I started feeling safe for the moment but I did not know if he gave up at that point (I mean i owed him like $5) or he would try to get a manhunt on me, so I hid like for several minutes and felt like James "underground" Bond. Like a ninja-night-warrior I took peeks around corners to see where he was and what he was doing, sneaking silently around the buildings, even creeping on the ground to not get spotted by him or alerted colleagues/watchmen/w/e. My next concern was whether the driver would inform the watchmen around to look out for a young "yang guizi" that ripped him off. I took a walk around the block, always hiding in the bushes if a taxi would run by and got into my compound from the back side, that guard did sleep, in the end I was safe finally.
Now I have to watch out in the future when I take a cab here :-/
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NeillyJQ United States. Jan 30 2011 04:34. Posts 8947 | | |
lol, asians love all foreigners for the most part, but when you jack a taxi driver, they want that dough yo, its their job. its not like a slut in a bar that leaves the second you realize you get you $ tomorrow or w/e
one time i was goin home from rhino, had $20 on my ATM left, my ride was bout $30 home, got dropped off at 3pm in vegas during july. over 100 degrees home, dehydrated, lost as fuck
good story tho =) |
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Yeah, another thing is (good or bad) that the streets were completely empty at that time, which means that now one did see me and could help out the Chinese taxi driver catching me, but on the other hand it allowed him to maneuver his car at his will.
LOL I am still excited, I am still a little bit worried because China is a fucking police state with 100% surveillance, if you ride a car you get photographed at every corner, not sure if it is only for the license plates or the car passenger as well. I mean, when you enter China you get your picture taken, you have to tell where you live etc. Now, if I was a murder suspect, they would find me for sure, but I do not think they will take any effort because of $5 or 6 that I owe him. Anyway, he knows about where I live and when he comes by he will keep his eyes open for sure, I have to look out for that^^ |
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inde Germany. Jan 30 2011 06:01. Posts 1298 | | |
for 13$ you can have one hell of a taxi ride in Shanghai. Still, jacking the driver is not cool even though he probably ripped you off on the price before :> |
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I know that it is not cool to jack him, but what the fuck should I have done? My buddy was busy fucking the slut, beside that I did not know anyone. I could not get cash and I could not have a conversation with him because I do not speak his language and he does neither speak mine or english, otherwise I would have said: "Well, sorry, I cannot get cash, you can give me a ride to the next ATM to try there, but it is your risk and your time, or you can call the police, but I do not have any cash at the moment", and honestly I did not feel like talking to him. I did not have anything of value on me, beside my cell phone and would not give that to him. Man, I came back from the ATM to at least give him the money I had, it would have been easier for me to simply run from the ATM because it was quite a distance from the street and there was that passage I used to run to when it worked out.
I do not feel good about it (ok, a little bit, lol and its cool to tell the story, but I did not choose to get into that situation and say: "Hell, I am going to have the most expensive taxi ride possible in Shanghai and rip off the driver" ) I was wacked by coincidence and the situation. I know that 80 or 90 RMB is quite a lot here, the simple workers at our factory earn 1500 RMB, but I gave him my last 55 RMB and then turned tailed and ran.
And in the future I will be quite nervous getting into a taxi because of that!
I do not know if he ripped me off, it was the night time service fee, I could see it at the taximeter, how should he manipulate it? Get smaller wheels or what? |
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Achoo Canada. Jan 30 2011 06:29. Posts 1454 | | |
hilarious... being chased by an angry taxi driver for 5 bucks LOL, but you're still a thief no matter what. You should have made him understood you were short on cash, give him your adress and pay him the next day. Well you were drunk so I guess that's ok to do retarded stuff like risking to get hurt for 5 dollas, we all do stupid stuff when intoxicated. |
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inde Germany. Jan 30 2011 07:31. Posts 1298 | | |
ask your buddy for money before he leaves, but oh well. I don't really know what I would've done either. Good thing my muscles healed up and I can run again  |
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Doubt you have anything to worry about. You whit folks look all the same to us |
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