Easter - Lijiang account

I have an excessively long account about my Easter travels here:
http://hklogs.blogspot.com/2010/04/easter.html 

questions

While abroad and in a 'multicultural' environment, I've noticed some situations consisting of a peculiar style of 'conversation'. A person might have a series of questions.  However, the next question is fired off (not necessarily to the same previously-questioned person) before a response is given to the first question.

This kind of time-division doesn't seem to work well in reality. Perhaps there is some truth in that Hitchhiker's quote:

If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

idiot...

I had recently discovered that many buses have reclining seats with a push-button release - rather like on aircraft. So here I was trying to recline a seat but getting nowhere. I turn around to discover that it has a bright yellow vertical support right through it with a red 'press for stop' bell!