注意安全

On the way home this morning, walking through the campus, I heard the sound of a vehicle approaching from behind, followed by the screech of tires as the driver suddenly locked the brakes. Looking around, I see a Jeep Cherokee whose driver had apparently forgotten until the last second that it’s generally a good idea to slow down before you hit the judder bars, especially when you’re about to hit a T-intersection which will force you to turn, and the road you’ll have to turn onto has more traffic than the one you’re on. As the Jeep turned, I saw printed in big, red characters across the back door of the Jeep:

注意安全

Pay attention to safety

Indeed.

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wangbo

A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

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