It was totally possible to be spanked five times in one day for doing something completely harmless, like tying your baby brother to a pig's back and then letting the pig run off. You know, pigs don't run very far, and my brother enjoyed the experience. He was laughing and errthang. Hell, I wish someone could have done that to me when I was little, I would have loved to see what it's like to ride a pig.
Anyway, I have friends in Hong Kong who still live in villages, and one of the things I have to warn you about when you visit a village is to beware of dog poo. There are a lot of stray dogs in the villages, and they shamelessly mine the area with their poo bombs. It's like an obstacle course of poo made worse by people who accidentally step on poo and then spend the next couple of metres trying to scrape the poo off on the sidewalk, hence spreading even more poo everywhere.
How can you step on dog poo?? It's RIGHT THERE, not to mention it stinks! Don't people pay attention?
Another thing to watch out for is during the rainy season when the little frogs come out in plague-like numbers. It's really disgusting and disturbing because they carpet the ground so much that you can't help but step on them and squish them to death. I try to kind of brush them aside as I walk but it takes forever to get through.
Anyway, most people mistakenly assume that Hong Kong is so urban, but there is a lot of countryside still here, you know?
Sometimes the sky is so beautiful, it makes me want to hurt someone.
