Below is a photo of my taxi driver who thought it was a good idea to multi-task while driving in peak hour traffic along Nguyen Huu Canh Street.
Granted, we were crawling at around 10kms/hour, but the traffic was stop-start so reading the newspaper while moving was probably not the smartest idea!
Just moments before I took this photo we were overtaken by a Vietnamese ambulance - a small, white mini van marked with a red cross on the side. Sadly, nobody seems to pay any attention to these guys, even when they have their sirens on!
As the ambulance passed I saw a guy sitting in the back, wearing a surgical mask, hanging out of the open window smoking a cigarette! (if you look closely at the photo the offending ambulance is in front of the taxi - obviously he had to remove his mask each time he took a puff!).
Not sure whether the smoker was a patient or an ambulance officer, but the fact that he was actually allowed to smoke inside a hospital on wheels...What the?!
Loving your blog, slowly working my way through it, laughing a lot! Having been to Vietnam I understand your frustrations at somethings. I am curious as to why you moved to Vietnam? What do you guys do for work and how do you go not speaking Vietnamese?
ReplyDeleteHi BundyMum, thanks for reading! We came to Vietnam originally for my husband's work (he is an Australian engineer) and now I also work here for the Australian Government. Not speaking the language certainly has its limitations, but we are lucky to have a housekeeper who speaks good English so that helps. We really should learn Vietnamese but it is such a difficult language.
ReplyDelete