Friday, January 1, 2010

Driving in HK

I drove in HK for the first time the other day.



It was terrifying. It's like driving in NYC (people are crazy aggressive) except everything is opposite because you're on the right side of the car and the left side of the street and the gas pedals are the same but your blinker is on the right and so when you try to signal your windshield wipers turn on and make you scared and confused and signs are not helpful because there are no real street names and everything is in half-English and there is no rhyme or reason to how the streets are organized and you have to know where different boroughs are oriented in order to get anywhere for instance there's no North or South or East or West you either have to head toward Kwun Tong or Kowloon or Sai Kung or Clearwater Bay or Sha Tin.

You'd think a city full of awful Asian drivers would try to make everything as simple as possible...



Anyway I got super mega lost and had to pay a cab driver to drive ahead of me and lead me home. Not my proudest moment.

Don't think I'll be driving again here anytime soon.

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