Your first experience with cultural difference

MisterPanda

futsanglung Post time: 2013-7-11 20:10
So how do you get in without x-raying any bags you have? By guard I mean the Bao An

Just go through, the guard has no legal authority to force you to scan your bag and cannot physically restrain you.

I accepted to have my bags scanned when it was the Expo because the government promised it was a temporary measure. Then temporary became permanent so I entered a state of resistance.

roninxian

snappysammy Post time: 2013-7-11 19:59
good thing you didn't call her a pussy

THAT, she wouldn't have understood, I thought she was going to beat me to death.

futsanglung

MisterPanda Post time: 2013-7-11 20:48
Just go through, the guard has no legal authority to force you to scan your bag and cannot physica ...

They do have the power to stop you entering the station due to bye laws, however I tend to ignore them if they try to stop me.

MisterPanda

roninxian Post time: 2013-7-11 20:49
THAT, she wouldn't have understood, I thought she was going to beat me to death.

Same kind of thing happened to me when I first arrived in China. We were discussing with friends (all of them Chinese) and with my broken Chinese at the time I told them I like duck. Not duck meat, duck. They all laughed and I too once they explained what a duck is in slang.

roninxian

futsanglung Post time: 2013-7-11 11:08
They do in China as well, it is just that all traffic laws are ignored.

Ha Ha, China has NO traffic laws.    I have learned that the hard way a few times.

snappysammy

futsanglung Post time: 2013-7-11 20:41
Sammy, you are loosing it.

Since 2008 EVERY subway station in Shanghai was a conveyor belt xray m ...

i ENJOY A GOOD PAT DOWN.....  I DON'T TAKE IT WHEN I'M CARRYING ANYTHING.....I"LL BE IN CHINA IN TWO WEEKS.....I'LL PAY MORE ATTENTION.....

I'M OK on an escalator  at a Mall....don't tell me they have eray machines....

roninxian

snappysammy Post time: 2013-7-11 19:56
i've never seen a guard on the subway.....i use line 1...

There are guards in Xi'an, including electronic scanners.  You have to put all your bags, etc. through the scanner.  Secret:  go early.