Woman grilling pork at 6:27AM. Gettingg rice vermicelli with grilled pork, spring roll, crispy pork crackling and strips of pork skin for $1.28, I was her first customer today. With inflation an alarming concern here, such a price won't last much longer.
She asked me once why I was always walking around, and never on a motorbike. I told her I would cause an accident within five seconds. I don't even like to ride a bicycle down an empty road in the countryside. I walk.
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Walking is good for you, but in Vietnam people don't walk --- at all. Riding the motorbikes is their second nature, it is an extension of their legs, even if that extension is all metal and mechanical. The millions and millions and millions and millions of motorbikes on the streets of Vietnam is a disaster to the environment: noise pollution, air pollution, and it is an incredibly weird sight during rush hours, you don't see people but you see waves and waves of aliens from outer space because of the helmets and the facemasks. And the sidewalks of Vietnam's cities are obstacle courses: you don't walk, but you navigate with full attention through the jungles of motorbikes that use the sidewalks as parking lots, through cracked and broken pavements and other hazardous things that litter the sidewalks, and you may trip and fall and break your toes if you don't watch your steps. Most of the time, you are forced onto the streets to compete for space with the rushing motorbikes (and now cars) that come at you from every direction. The streets of Vietnam are not for the faint of heart and its sidewalks are utterly walker unfriendly, objects of neglect, like its museums, and public libraries --- if there are any.
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