Man About Taiwan: Duncan Arrives

A new teacher has arrived in Yuanlin! He had a few days in Yuanlin before heading to Taipei for training. So on Friday night we decided to head for Tony's BBQ where lots of people were planning to meet. No-one was there, the place was full of locals and we were hungry. So we drove back to my apartment, revised our plans and headed with renewed optimism for Bert's Restaurant. A longish drive, but good calzones and and fitting place to get drunk. We duly got rat-arsed, Katie being the number 1 piss head and me not far behind.

After finishing a bottle of vodka and numerous beers we decided to leave. We had driven on scooters, but this was looking quite unlikely considering Katie’s inability to stop flopping about on the floor.

Anyway I didn't want to leave the scooters, so Kate and Katie got a taxi leaving Duncan and I to ride scooters. I think his first time. We drove back but suddenly he stopped being in my wing mirror and I turned around. Kate's scooter had just stopped, no noise, no dripping liquid, just lost power and stopped. Weird. We spent ages pushing and kick starting it to no avail. Got tired of that, so we left it and drove back on mine.

At about 3:00am or 4:00am I drove Ducan home, when we arrived we realised that getting in was impossible without a key... Doh!! So we drove back to my apartment where we crashed out until we got woken up at some ungodly hour by a loudspeaker advert on a truck!

This was Duncan's first night out with us!

Did someone just guff?