Damn… I didn’t know…
Yesterday I went through 2 funny episodes with Taiwan people…
The first one was at lunch time… Leo, my brother and me were having lunch in a very traditional Taiwanese restaurant, next to our table there was another table with some sauces and stuffs like that, and there was a standard Taiwanese lady… by lady I mean around 50 years old… picking some for her special pork’s head skin, but she was so meticulous about it that she looked like an artist or something like that… then I said in Spanish “that old lady looks like she is painting her dish jejejejeje” (esa vieja parece que estuviera pintando ese plato) in a way that was not the best one, but at the same time not so rude… at the same time she kind of looked at me and left to her table, then she came back to my table and said…. IN SPANISH “where are you from”… damn… I said from Colombia… and she said ok.. then my friend said where did you learn Spanish, and she said in Spain… all these in Spanish…. We were shocked and she kept looking at me during the lunch with this funny “I got you” face… but again, who would know that she knew Spanish in Taiwan…. An old lady….
For the second show of the day… it was around 9:30 pm, I was looking for a case for my new Kodak V1253 camera (jejeje)… and we went to a small store near Nova in Hsinchu. The owner could speak good English so we started talking about something else that I was looking for, that would be a way to mount my camera safely over my helmet… the guy looked surprised about my request and he had this wired face like “why would you do that” so I thought.. ok he doesn’t know about bikes.. I said in very simple terms “ I have a big bike, and it vibrates a lot because it is a V-Twin engine so when I put the camera on my motorcycle he videos are going to be horrible…” he had this new face, like “what the fuck are u talking about”.. so I thought… ok he doesn’t know anything about bikes… then the funny question came, the one that surprised me, what kind of bike do you have… on my mind I said… why would he asked me that? What should I tell him to explain what kind of bike do I have?, any way I will just tell him the brand and name and he would not understand and that would be the end of this… so I said “Suzuki SV1000” and he said “SV1000S” ~~!!!!!~~ I turned my face towards him and I said.. “No, the naked one” and he said “nice bike, bout why don’t u get a 4 cylinders one”… so I answered back with 2 things “well I like the power of my engine, but hey.. u know about bikes…” he said “yes… I have 2.. An Africa twin and a Yamaha 1100cc T-MAX”… and that was it… again, who could imagine that he knew about bikes… a normal looking guy, around 40 to 50 years old on a small camera shop…
The moral of the story… Anything can happen in Taiwan…
