Vietnam is filled with "two wheels" army. Not French. Not American. Not Vietnamese this time.
They occupy all the space in the town. Every single piece of it. No, I am not talking about the roads. That's too obvious. They are occupying sidewalks. Shop corners. Restaurants, living rooms and kitchens. But most importantly - your mind.
When you think of it, there are number of reasons why you desperately need one in Vietnam:
1. because your neighbour happened to live 2 meters away from you and you two like to drink tea together on Saturday mornings.
2. because you feel cosy in your living room when you park all three of them in the little gap between the sofa and the TV.
3. because you practise for the world record of how many people can fit on one motorbike.
4. because hysteric beeping in the streets sounds like Vivaldi to your ears.
5. because you feel like Vivaldi yourself and see that all the others enjoy your "beeping composition" (the others refer to the local people mainly).
6. because you cannot stand the silence
7. because in case you are tired, you just stop at the most noisy street corner and take a cat nap on a nicely sun-heated leather seat of your two wheels shiny friend.
8. because buying bus tickets for fifty ducks or 200 kg weighting pig would be simply not affordable.
9. because your favourite English phrase is - motorbike sir? - regardless if you talk to man or to women.
10. because if you do not have one, very soon you will lose the battle for the sidewalk. Do not forget that pedestrians are the ones of the lowest social status in this society.
Did I convince you?
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