Fact: There are 4,770 7-11 stores in Taiwan.
Fact: 7-11 has a wide variety of beer and alcoholic beverages.
Fact: Drinking alcohol on streets in Taipei is legal.
Considering all this, we are going to go on a Seven Eleven Crawl.
Ted Glomski, a real-live Wisconsonian, had organized an event which was so genius in its simplicity that I just sat at my computer, stupefied, wondering why I hadn't thought of it first. The plan was simply to walk from Chang Kai Shek Memorial Hall to Taipei 101 while stopping to buy a beer at every single 7-11 on the way. To Americans this might not seem like so daunting a task, but in Taipei 7-11s are more numerous than Starbucks are in America.
Unfortunately, Ted organized a little to thoroughly, and about 30 people showed up for the introductory speech, in which Ted outlined the rules and publicly shamed all non-drinkers.
This is taken before the crawl officially began. If you look closely you might notice a handsome devil in green near the back.
This is taken at the first 7-11. (Hereafter referred to as simply "7" for brevity and Taiwanese-ness) We organized ourself into 6 man drinking teams to maximize 6-pack efficiency. My team's name is "Pivozerci" which is, supposedly, Slovenian for "The one who loves beer."
My turn to buy a 6-pack for Pivozerci. It goes without saying that I buy American. Factoid: Hiro Aki, the dashing looking Japanese gentleman in the bottom right, may or may not be an actual pimp who makes his manifold hos play volleyball.
More beer. Ted is the country club looking fellow in the white hat.
Congregating outside a 7. This might be the 7 at which the police rolled by. They said hi.
This is Chido. Chido is GBC (German Born Chinese.) He taught me how to say "Your mother sweats while she expletive deleted" in German. Despite being awesome, Chido proved unable to complete the 7 crawl, as evidenced by his red badge of shame. I picked up his slack.
This is the point at which everybody, in the very shadow of Taipei 101, collectively decided that we had had enough. Ted, along with a few devoted followers, carried on and touched Taipei 101, but I quit. It was sad.
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