For those of you with fond memories of movies showing Asian cities full of people pulling rickshaws which were the means of transportation for the elite... and as the elite were being pulled around others gazed at them in admiration...(elite defined in the dictionary as ‘enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status’) today the rickshaws have been replaced by the three-wheeled auto rickshaw or tuk-tuk...the means of transportation for the opposite of elite tourist. Today, in Bangkok, when your riding a tuk-tuk the people still gaze at you in admiration from their metered air conditioned taxi’s, while you, after having bartered for a way too high price, are have a thrilling ride weaving in & out of traffic inches away from other tuk-tuks, motorbikes and buses in the heat and the exhaust...on the up side you have earned the right to wear a tuk-tuk t-shirt as you visit the rest of the city in a metered air conditioned taxi.Friday, February 19, 2010
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For those of you with fond memories of movies showing Asian cities full of people pulling rickshaws which were the means of transportation for the elite... and as the elite were being pulled around others gazed at them in admiration...(elite defined in the dictionary as ‘enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status’) today the rickshaws have been replaced by the three-wheeled auto rickshaw or tuk-tuk...the means of transportation for the opposite of elite tourist. Today, in Bangkok, when your riding a tuk-tuk the people still gaze at you in admiration from their metered air conditioned taxi’s, while you, after having bartered for a way too high price, are have a thrilling ride weaving in & out of traffic inches away from other tuk-tuks, motorbikes and buses in the heat and the exhaust...on the up side you have earned the right to wear a tuk-tuk t-shirt as you visit the rest of the city in a metered air conditioned taxi.
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It was too funny when you and Uncle Thom bartered the price of the Tuk tuk down from what was it? $4 canadian to $2 or something?? lol.... You were like "Thom, its cheap, just get in and lets go!"
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