Well it's official, I own a scooter!
My friend and coworker, Jane, and I struck a deal with a nice Indian man who has lived in Taichung for the past 5 years about buying two scooters he had for sale. This afternoon while I was teaching, Jane had some preps and went to go meet the Indian man and his cousin at the DMV. These scooters are now safely registered under our names, we have paid full in cash, and I even got a name stamp out of the deal!
Let me explain that last part. Everyone (well, almost everyone) in Taiwan (and possibly other Asian countries as well) signs their name with a personalized name stamp. Since each persons name is generally broken down into three chinese characters, they easily fit on a small square stamp that people just carry with them. So apparently this cousin of the Indian man who sold us our scooters is very good friends with some people at the Taichung DMV and while Jane was waiting for the paperwork to process, this cousin went ahead and had them make us our very own name stamps too!
A scooter AND a personalized name stamp?! Thanks Indian man and your cousin.
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