In Tim’s shoes is a little experiment I’m doing for one week, focusing on my experiences rather than my opinions.
Saturday night. Our friends Aimee and Andrew invited us over for dinner. Aimee makes a mean taco salad.
Interesting experience with a taxi driver on the way there. He politely let me know he’s in the “getting-things-done” business, which I think means that he’s connected to some sort of mafia.
“Just call me if you ever get in any trouble,” he assured us. “You know in Beijing, you have to ‘take the backdoor’ a lot of times to get things done. That’s what I do. Call me whenever you have a problem. I’m not saying you’re going to have a problem. But nobody’s life is always happy, not always sad either, just sometimes things happen. When they do, you call me. I get things done.”
Besides eating taco salad at Aimee’s, that’s the best offer I’ve had all week.
U2’s new album, “No Line on the Horizon,” comes out on March 3.
Remember the brown leather shoes I wrote about? Ning changed the laces for me. And guess what? The old ones really did fall apart when she unlaced them!
Tomorrow is the last day in the In Tim’s shoes series. Google Analytics tells me that over the last week a higher than usual number of people have been checking out Go Too Far East. Seems like people find it more interesting to read about experiences than opinions.
Click here to read In Tim’s shoes, Day 5
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Bethany showed me the u tube clip of you and Ning at Andrew and Aimee’s making taco salad. Looks like you are going a little Bohemian with the hair, is this the writer thing coming out?
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