Au contraire mon gun-slinging, bull-riding, chilli-munching pal. I've decided to stay for another year, imposing my values on the 1.350.000.000 Chinese one bumpkin at a time. The day I STOP getting offended/horrified/flabbergasted/baffled/annoyed is the day I'm out of here.

Doubt you'd go to jail for letting air out of a tire, especially if no one is around to see it. I dunno,, I'm getting seriously sick and tired of this kind of antisocial behaviour that so many Chinese people seem so eager to engage in.

Maybe I'm just having yet another bad China day but I'm getting increasingly xxxxxx off because of this: I live in a gated community up north. Apparently some guy's had a dispute with the security about parking within the area so he decided the best way to get back at them was to park his car in the gate so no other cars can enter. He's been parked there for 3 days now, security can't do anything and from what I've heard the police didn't want to get involved. This guy is clearly a major douche bag taking his beef out on everyone else living in the area and I'm thinking about doing something about it. Sure, there are other gates but they're far from the parking spots and it takes some careful navigating through the park where little kids play. What do you guys think is the proper way to go about this?:

1. Do nothing.
2. Let the air out of his tires.
3. Deposit some rotten trash over his car.
4. Use his car for batting practice.
5. Find out his number, write it on cardboard and place it under his wipers.

I also thought about writing something else on cardboard "Free car. I'm sick of it. Yours if you can find a way to remove it" but I'm afraid it might get me into trouble of someone actually did.

Another reason to keep it above 150 is that occasionally they'll cancel on you and there is no compensation for that. I've even tried sitting an hour in a bus just to find no one home. The mother had forgotten there was a class that day. Smoke turned to fire when my wife told me I couldn't charge for the class even though I had done everything right, it's just not the Chinese way.

Some idiots are building down from my flat as well. The developer doesn't give a rat's ass that he is surrounded on all 4 sides by residential high rises and used to work all through the night -correction, whipping his 1500 a month migrant workers around. After having received a couple of hundred complaints over half a year he finally caved, although he apparently thinks that giant earth movers and a steady stream of huge yellow trucks aren't included in the No-working-after-midnight clause. Having slept 3 hours last night I am sorely tempted to go and introduce Mr. Developer to my friend Mr. Baseball Bat.