She only wanted some money, and so, the police suggested, that the writer and his father, settled, which the writer had, but he’d not, felt good about it one bit! Translated…
On my way home, I’d had a fender bender, called my father.
Since he’d retired from his teaching position from the middle school, he had a ton of leisure times, and the meanings of his life was, staying at home, and because of his teaching career, it’d not allowed him to pursue his interests of coffee, movies, Chinese musical instruments. Being steady and stable, he’d not become, more talkative with his retirement, instead he’d shown how he’d felt in his, actions———the most apparent was driving the family members around. Like it was a first job for him in since, forever, he’d, insisted on, driving us, even if it was a ten-minute way; to save up the time of commute for us, he also, got the opportunity to travel alongside us. Being very careful, there were a lot he’d left, unspoken, but, as a son, I’d always, thought even more, so, when I wasn’t pressed by time, I’d always, selected to take the rental bikes, and, rode my way home in the traffic slowly.
Five minutes later, my father arrived at the sight of the accident.
Getting home from my study hall period, I’d ridden my bicycle across the marketplaces, with the crowds, the cars from all around. Then, suddenly, an elderly woman on a scooter coming towards me, made a turn, and, cut into my lane. I couldn’t brake in time, and, on that street of my hometown I’d lived for more than twenty years, using my bicycle, rammed over her scooter—the loud noises of the metal impacting, resonated, echoed to all over, and everybody who’s close by, started, looking at us. I came back from the shock, and, confirmed with the elderly, that we’d only, sustained, minor, abrasions, I’d used my cell phone, to call the police, to tell them of the location where my accident had, occurred, and, I’d, started, arguing with the elderly woman, in my Taiwanese that lacked fluency, who was it that didn’t watch the coming traffic.
How did a college student get in this big a mess? The elderly before me, rubbed her knees, and told the officer of her long-term physical ailments, and no matter how it goes, it doesn’t look good, from someone who’s young and agile as, me. A young officer, as he was collecting the evidence, pulled me aside, whispered to me, “the elderly seemed only wanted to have the money”, and suggested that I give her a number, so long as we both agreed on the amount, and we’d made a settlement agreement, then, everything will be okay. Everybody can rush home to their suppers then. But I’d felt unfair, and, refused.
Before I got my statement taken by the police, my father kept reiterating: don’t state that you “rammed into the woman”, and use, “we had a fender-bender”; don’t’ say that you couldn’t “slam on the brakes in time”, but, that you’d “paid attention to the surrounding environments”………and such. I’d nodded, like I was, a test taker for the very first time, that after this, I will have, only ME, to rely on, on this, road to my own, life.
Before the desks at the police station, I sat with an officer, and, used the rehearsed words my father just taught to me, and, set the words up, and, drew the route I took in my memories down on a sheet of paper. As I’d, handed over that heavy set memory out, the police called out the surveillance footage captured, and compared it with my statements.
And, all the proofs only showed, how I’d not thought, far enough. The camera was, way too far from the site of the fender bender, and the elderly woman’s scooter and my bike, no matter how the computer maximized, became, nothing but those, digitized dots, even if the footages were maximized to the, extremes, there’s no clarifying what exactly, had, happened. And all got into, that deadlock, again. My father couldn’t withstand it anymore, pulled out two thousand dollars, readied to settle. The officer smiled, so did the elderly woman. As we left the police station, my father handed me a helmet, told me, “let’s go home now”.
“This time, you were, lucky, there were, only minor abrasions; what if the next time, you were, so lucky, what if, something actually, happened, what will, you do?”, at night, my father who’d usually been very careful and steady, blurted out what was on his mind on the scooter, as we rode home, against the wind.
Sitting on the back, wrapping my arms around his waist, thought, that we had yet to have supper, and so, I’d not, said a, single, thing.
And so, this just showed, how money solved everything, this time, and the next time, maybe this person won’t be, so lucky, but thankfully, his father, who’s, more experienced with the world, taught him this lesson, and hopefully, this man will, operate his vehicle, more carefully from here on out, and NOT crash again.
Calling the Corruptions of, War
The precedence of, Ukraine, still NOT, taken, seriously enough here, ‘cuz, oh yeah, there’s NO bombs, dropping down, blowing UP this god DAMN island that I’m currently living on, Y-E-T!!! The Taiwanese “popularly elected government” is still FUCKING (don’t pardon me here!) us all, up! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The scandals of corruption came out, the president of Ukraine, Zelenskyy fired FOUR assistant directors of government offices, five governors, an assistant district attorney, along with many other in the higher up government, including the assistant manager of his own office, Tymoshenko.
The corruption of Ukraine is already, world-renowned, and, Zelenskyy used the slogans of “fighting corruption” to help him win the elections; and yet, his closest cabinet members are corrupt, right under his, nose. After the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict began, he’d used the green t-shirt to shape his own heroic image, while the corruptions of his government officials, ongoing outside the camera lenses. And, this scandal made the rest of the world realized: that the corruptions of war give off of an even, bigger stench!
what they looked like, photo from online, and more are, “coming in”…
As the soldiers of Ukraine give their lives on the frontlines, lying DEAD, the higher up officials are living high, and extravagantly. Tymoshenko had used the Chevy that were used to extract the locals to safety as his own; the assistant basic equipment manager, in a contract that helps restored water and electric power to the people, took a bribe of $400,000 in the engineering; even the D.o.D. took the kickbacks on the meal costs for the servicemen who are fighting the war on the, frontlines.
The disclosures of all of these, scandals, had, completely, blemished the justifiable reasons of a country’s going to war. The problem being: is this scene, only unique to, Ukraine, or, is this, the unavoidable, results of, war?
Wu and Hsiao both stated to the foreign presses, matter-of-factly: Taiwan is ready for war as a whole society. Recently, there came, the news of the Speaker of the House, McCarthy’s possible visit in the springtime here, it’d only been, no more than six months since the Communist Chinese fighter planes, battleships started, circling Taiwan, and now, the DDP wanted to, defy the People’s Liberation Army of China. But, doesn’t the DDP have other tricks up its, sleeve, why does it keep on, tooting the horns of, war?
The higher up of Ukrainian government got turned over, every call that’s loud for war, sounded like the war horns of, corruption, sounding, quite, suspicious!
the “head counts” from back in 2019! “Graph” found online
Of course, the U.S. would want us to go to war with China, after all, it’d, already RETREATED all those TMSC engineers out of the country by, “extraction”, leaving this island as, a vacant lot, and, hello, hello, hello, that’s what, 13 BILLION in population across the seas in China, and how many do WE have here??? Yeah, not even close to HALF of that, and so, here’s the “dilemma” (yeah right!): do we go and save the measly millions, offending BILLIONS in China (that would be, SUICIDE in business, you DO realize that, right???) or do we just, let that god DAMN island, that we’d already shipped ALL of our, outdated battle gears to, sink?
You do the “math”…
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