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Tuesday, 20 September 2005

by: jordanclary

It took two people to man the suicide buses. One was the driver, usually male, often with teeth stained brown from chewing beetle nuts. Some drivers ground their teeth. Others rocked manically back and forth. They all drove fast. One late night bus ride home I watched the speedometer climb to 75 mph. That night we also ran two red lights and took a quick detour down the bike lane. It’s not surprising that most of these buses had dents or bent fenders. The suicide buses never seemed to heed traffic laws, but then neither do most of Haikou’s vehicular traffic.
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posted by: howard at 06:44 | link | comments (3) |

Comments:

#1 20 September 2005 - 06:46

Editor's note: two featured posts in a row with buses, hmmm.

howard

#2 20 September 2005 - 19:06

...I may not be able to right reel good, but I sure as fuck can spell, and that's "betel nuts", not "beetle nuts". And aren't beetles kind of small for that kind of thing?

just one more big fat jealous dummy