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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sending some warm, muggy, late night love…

Man, it’s been years since I’ve spent time in the more chaotic parts of Asia. Favs atm are:

  • A passenger on a scooter legit carrying a ladder upright.
  • Gramps on his scooter living his best life riding at about 10kms an hour.
  • Women riding scooters in PJ’s

Living it up in Phnom Penh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

and nearly all are wearing sandals

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I rode it scooter around Thailand. As it's dangerous for tourists generally, I'd pick a grandma and potter along behind her through the chaos. Never had an issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I did, too, years ago.

Though checking in a hotel in Patong and watching a slight Japanese woman wheeled out in wheelchair after she broke both and and legs (face looked fine, luckily) on a scooter, should be enough to make some people think twice.