Previously on Evynation... Evy came to Taiwan, I showed her
the good stuff in Taipei, we took the wrong train to Hualien, we needed
information but we don't speak Chinese so a kind man 'Angel...o' (I am going to
call him Angelo from now on) helped us out, we needed to wait an hour for the
next train without tickets for a seat...
While we were laughing with our stupidity, we were walking to the platform where we could sit and wait for our train. We found a bench, sat down, and before we could take a breath and let the event settle, Angelo was standing there in front of us with two bottles of Coke Zero.
Angelo: "Hi, this is for you."
Evy and I, we were looking at each other and we were
thinking exactly the same things like ‘What’s the meaning of that move?’, 'Why
is he buying us a drink?', 'Will he follow us to Hualien and rape us there?',
'Is he trying to seduce us with a Coke?' and we were trying to keep our
laughter!
Evy and I: "Oh you shouldn't have bought that for
us! That is so kind of you!
Me: "OMG, you even bought the one that I always
drink!"
Evy and I: "Thank you so much!"
Aaaaaand yes of course, there it happened! He was
looking at us with these strange eyes and he just wanted to sit next to us. Evy
and I began to drink our Coke Zero, looked at each other and again I almost did
not manage to swallow the Coke because I couldn’t hold my laughter, this was
the weirdest situation ever!
So we were sitting there, three in a row. And since he
was awfully quiet and staring at us without glancing.
We started to ask him some questions: where do you come from? (I don't
remember), where are you going? (Don't remember either), Where do you work?
(That I remember! It had something to do with water recycling, he was an environmental
engineer or so..). The diesel finally warmed up and started asking about our
lives too, why we are in Taiwan, what we think of Taiwan, but still.. he could
not stop staring at us! There were not a lot of emotions visible on his face,
we really did not know what he was thinking. It was kinda creepy!
The conversation was over and I was thinking how fun
it would be to share our train-event with the world! So I was trying wifi to
share the train-event but there was none. I said that out loud and Angelo
told me that I could use his notebook. Carolyn: "But there is no wifi
here.." Angelo: "Not here on the platform, but there is wifi downstairs....
OK we went down (we had plenty of time!) and of course Angelo followed us like
a duck. Angelo opened his notebook and start watching porn! ........... Ok the
story isn't THAT exciting! I didn't know what he was doing on his notebook, but
I noticed on my shitty BB that the wifi wasn’t free. So we did not have free wifi, no train, no
seats on the next train BUT HEY we had Angelo and a Coke ZERO. The hell
with all the rest right!
We went all back to the platform and just talked a
little bit more before our train arrived, finally. We said goodbye to Angelo
after he was explaining to us that we needed to get off in Hualien after the
stop before Hualian..... Ooow DO WE??? HAD NO IDEA. We took our train and
changed places 3 times or so - always funny when you see people walking towards
you in the aisle and thinking 'No you are not sitting here, NOT here, OOOOH
DAMN is this really your seat?' Eventually we arrived in rainyrainy
Hualien.
Hey you know what! I am going to tell you the end of
the story with pictures and comments, that will do! But before I do that, I am
wondering. What was Angelo's intention exactly? Was he just overfriendly and
did he had a staring-disease of was he just so fascinated by us, Western
people, that he just couldn't take his eyes of us. But the thing is, he did not
have any expression on his face whatsoever so you never knew how he was feeling
or what he was thinking... Well, I guess we will never know but If you ever
take the wrong train in Taiwan, let the people that want to help you just help
you and take that into gratitude because eventually he bought us a Coke, a Zero
one.
Cheers! X
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