just kidding about what i just said (AKA I LIED TO YOUR FACE)

as we got toward the end of the day, the three amigos (kris, dave, and marc) and juliana decided that they wanted to go to the light show later that night.  greg and i weren't particularly interested and, instead, decided that we wanted to go cruise the town on our super-sexy electric scooter (see my previous comment on the sex appeal factor of electric scooters in the first post about the dirty old boatman).  it took a great deal of convincing to get mr. su to say ok.  the day before when we'd agreed to rent his scooters and let him be our guide, he'd promised that we could use the scooters all day.  apparently, his definition of "all day" and ours didn't line up.  to him, "all day" ended at about five.  "that's when i get off work!" he said.  (of course, he didn't mention that it was nearly ten o'clock when he found us on the street and invited us over to his place...BUT I DID!) as i reckoned it, he was working until about nine thirty or ten o'clock the day before, and since he was liable to be up just as late looking for tomorrow's customers, it wouldn't be a big deal if we didn't bring the scooter back at eight thirty or nine.  finally he agreed.  THEN, when we got back to his shop, his wife took our scooters and said nicely, "come back tomorrow!" "actually," we said, "we're going to be back in just a second with a passport for collateral.  mr. su told us that we could keep the scooter until later tonght." after about fifteen "they're out of electricity"s and "it'll be dark outside"s, i finally said, "fine.  keep it then.  but we won't be back tomorrow."  when she heard this, suddenly there was enough electricity AND she could show us how to work the lights...but we had to promise to be back before eight thirty.  so we wandered back to our hotel, stopping for some bandages for my toe and knee, and returned to the scooter shop at around six thirty or six forty-five.  SURPRISE, SURPRISE!  yang yang (the wife) has taken the scooters into the back and has started charging them.  "you two took too long! i've already started charging them.  you'll just have to come back tomorrow!"  needless to say, i was pretty dang grumpy.  few things make me more angry than people lying to my face...probably because it insults my intelligence.  i gave her a piece of my mind, reminded her that she had JUST told us that we could have the scooter and went back on her word, and promised that i would NOT be coming back the next day for so much as a road map.  and i didn't.  instead, greg and i rented a gas scooter from a place right next to our new hotel.  and that's the next story.