Courtney: A couple of weeks ago a work trip took me to Beijing for a few days...
Hours in Beijing: 60
Taxi rides: 5
Taxi rides that included a near collision* with a bus: 4
Taxi rides that included a near collision* with a cyclist: 5
Taxi rides with functioning seat belts: 0
* "near collision" = margin of 6 inches or less
Peking ducks eaten: 1.5
Cups of chrysanthemum tea drunk: 5
Unidentifiable foodstuffs eaten: 6
Mini Snickers bars from the Google mini-kitchens eaten: 8
Days since last rainfall in Beijing: 110
Rainfall during my second day in Beijing: 6 inches
Taxis available when I needed to leave the office that day: 0
Googlers stranded at the office with me: 2 (that I knew of)
Times I called my hotel hoping they could send their car service to get us: 3
Times I thought I'd have to sleep in the office that night: 8
Cost of renting an umbrella from the restaurant where we ate dinner: dunno because I didn't pay, but what a brilliant idea
Minutes spent wandering in the rain at 9pm until we found a taxi: 45
Cost of 35 minute taxi ride to drop off 2 other Googlers and me: US$4.82
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