incompetence and bad driving, noise, noise and a slow internet

My being sort of "China friendly" over the last few weeks has had its reasons; the sense of achievement that this country is feeling at the moment is probably immense and rightly so. Moreover, with apologies to Harald McMillan, they have never had it so good. There are a lot of reasons to be optimistic in China, at least for a lot of people.
Nevertheless, this new found liking on my part has been tempered on a number of occassions today. Firstly, there was me waking up without water this morning although I paid for the water five days ago and then there was me almost getting run over when walking across the road with the traffic light in my favour and having a car almost hit me as he speeded over the zebra crossing at 100 miles per hour and there was me getting into a taxi and having to tell him that I will direct him to where I want to go quite simply because he doesn't know the streets in his one town and then here is me now, sitting here in a starbucks surrounded by Chinese and the Chinese must be the loudest people on the planet; they really do scream at each other and there cannot be any real conversation in that wailing, can there? There really is no concept of private space here and there is also this slow, ridiculously slow, internet connection.
Anyway, it is all over bar the shouting; at 6 a.m. tomorrow I will go to Pudong Airport and fly to London. Whether I come back to China or not remains in the stars and at some time in the next few days I will be obliged to write down my impressions. Writing them down in London isn't a bad idea and maybe when I am there I will forget about the four people sitting in the table next to me, shouting at each other, making a general din and really being quite unaware that there is someone at the table next to them who just doesn't want to have his ear drums ruptured.
Still, I get the impression that I am leaving China closer to where I was round about February or March than to where I was a couple of weeks ago and believe me, it will be wonderful to get back to the superfast internet connection.