Political annoyances

Corbett | March 7, 2004 3:53 PM

I've been getting these poll questionaire calls every couple days. Usually they are about credit cards, or a TV show, and I usually ask them "For free?" when they ask, "Can I have three minutes of your time?" This confuses them, and they just hang up. Today a nice lady called to ask for three minutes of my time concerning the upcoming elections. I thought this was interesting since someone had to be paying her to call, and that someone was either Ah-Bien or Lien.

Essentially she tried to get me to commit to either Blue or Green. I kept telling her that they were both obnoxious thugs [true], and I as a Taiwanese back from the US after so many years [untrue], was so disgusted by their lack of statesmenship [true] that I wanted to move away forever until Taiwan got a real leader [true]. She asked like 30 questions, which were well written to get me to lean either Blue or Green, and she seemed a bit miffed that I kept falling off the tracks.

To answer question 25+, I told her I was ren zhu min, Aboriginal, and why should I be interested in supporting any party who has nothing but their own personal race issues in mind? "Where's the ren zhu min leaders?" I bemoaned. "Oh so that explans your accent!" the lady said. I don't know why I added this, but it seemed right. Maybe it was because the other night Gao Jin Su Mei stopped by the Living Room and we were playing songs and hanging out. But we never talk politics. Is this how I really feel? Interesting.

Category: Mr. Asia

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