I completely disagree with the above. My favorite tactic is to try and out-crazy the crazy. This usually stumps them. For example, you could have tried these responses:
1. Showed him a picture of some dog doo doo and replied, "See this...this is where I live! it already is shit! Now what?"
2. Started chanting, "USA! USA! USA!" like for 10 straight minutes. WTF would he have done? This would be even cooler if you had one of those statue of liberty foam hat thingies.
3. You could have started to look around really nervously, spoken Madarin/Cantonese (or jibberish even, who cares) into your watch (Dick Tracy style), then proceed to finish up your "conversation" by saying in English, "We've identified the culprit. Commence Operation Red." At this point, you could look at the dude, laugh maniacally and run stage left.
I had a discussion about American politics with this american cab driver once. He accused me of being 'unpatriotic'. I thought about showing him my passport, but there didn't seem to be much point ( isn't my accent enough? ). In his mind Patriotism is an important thing. To a European it's just worrying and usually followed by jackbooted thugs and concentration camps.
Oh God. Years after your comment, I'm reading it and going "Oh God! Life has only been proving him RIGHT! Maybe we need to ship half the country to Europe for a year or more, then do the other half! Got any adult "whole family, half a village" foreign exchange programs around? Anyone? ANYONE??!?
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I completely disagree with the above. My favorite tactic is to try and out-crazy the crazy. This usually stumps them. For example, you could have tried these responses:
1. Showed him a picture of some dog doo doo and replied, "See this...this is where I live! it already is shit! Now what?"
2. Started chanting, "USA! USA! USA!" like for 10 straight minutes. WTF would he have done? This would be even cooler if you had one of those statue of liberty foam hat thingies.
3. You could have started to look around really nervously, spoken Madarin/Cantonese (or jibberish even, who cares) into your watch (Dick Tracy style), then proceed to finish up your "conversation" by saying in English, "We've identified the culprit. Commence Operation Red." At this point, you could look at the dude, laugh maniacally and run stage left.
I had a discussion about American politics with this american cab driver once. He accused me of being 'unpatriotic'.
I thought about showing him my passport, but there didn't seem to be much point ( isn't my accent enough? ). In his mind Patriotism is an important thing. To a European it's just worrying and usually followed by jackbooted thugs and concentration camps.
Maybe he thought you were North Korean...b/c many chinese/taiwanese look like they are North Koreans. Even North Koreans think we are North Koreans.
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Oh God. Years after your comment, I'm reading it and going "Oh God! Life has only been proving him RIGHT! Maybe we need to ship half the country to Europe for a year or more, then do the other half! Got any adult "whole family, half a village" foreign exchange programs around? Anyone? ANYONE??!?
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