In Belize, people say, “right now” instead of “please wait a moment.” I think Belizean “right now” is similar to Mexican “ahorita.”

Once when I was at the airport, I was technically the next person in line, but the security agent wanted me to wait a moment. So she told me, “right now! right now!” and if I was a tourist I would have thought she wanted me to go immediately. It would have been so confusing!

Only because I had been living in Belize for a while, I understood that she actually wanted me to wait.

In Taiwan, you will see green bags of chips in various places: car dashboards, taped to computers, sitting on air conditioners, etc. This snack is called kuaikuai 乖乖. It has to be the green butter coconut flavor. The reason is that 乖 means well-behaved, so the snack bag ensures the device will work property.

It’s half serious superstition/religious belief, half ironic. I feel many people take it more seriously than they’d admit.