9/10/10 Personal space… You must be joking

Space and I spent the morning and early afternoon riding around taking care of some essentials.  I guess I hadn’t really noticed it until now but Space was constantly bothered by the Taiwanese lack of respect for personal space.  As he explained to me: “when so many people live on top of each other, this is the result.”  It’s like a whole society where “close talking” is the rule rather than the exception.

What I had learned to tolerate because “it was part of the culture” and temporary for me was the thing that Space hated because “it was part of the culture”…only it was permanent for him.