Been in Taiwan too long: More

On the way out to a restaurant, Pierre was riding his scooter on the pavement and beeping his horn at women and children to get out the way.
“What are you doing?” I said.
“It is the way it is done!”
I had been influenced by the culture a lot: I went through reds lights, tried to look for somewhere to put my feet up whenever I sat down, keep my coat on in doors, didn’t pick my feet up when I walked and stood on the straps on the back of my scandals; I had given up looking where I was going when I walked, thought the best part of the meat was next to the bone, didn’t make eye contact when people were talking to me, and wandered off when they were midway through a sentence without asking to be excused. However, I still hadn’t managed to get my head around the idea it was okay to push pedestrians to move out the way on the pavement.

Been in Taiwan too long: Older western people

Most foreigners in Taiwan were male and young. It was very rare to see an older western person.
I was walking down the street with Josh one day when a mid-fifties white woman walked by.
"Stop staring," i said.
“Wow, you didn’t find that a little freaky?” said Josh.
“No,” I said lying.
“I mean that was a middle aged white woman in the flesh, I haven’t seen one of those for...Jesus...A couple of years. I mean old white people are rare here, but old white women…I found myself fascinated by her white wrinkly skin, staring at her like she was the exotic one.”
“You’re a funny one!” I said, But I got the point – we had all been here too long.

Been in Taiwan too long: Can't tell western girls' ages

Taiwan girls look alot younger and so after a while you can't tell western girls' ages.

I was sat at home watching the movie '13' on DVD. I had rented it because it was supposed to be controversial story about 'Jailbait' girls.

I watched it just not able to see what the fuss was all about, before finally shouting: "I don't get it, every 18 year old bangs all the time."

"They are 13," replied my girlfriend.

"Oh, yeah. Shit, i am never going to be able to go back to the west."