Tsay vividly recalls witnessing common people suffer abuses at the hands of local gentry. Once as a nine-year-old boy he saw his friend bullied for no apparent reason until some gangsters intervened. Tsay was so taken by the unlikely rescue that, on a school paper shortly thereafter, he wrote that his aspiration was to be a gangster!
蔡東纂表示，小時候經常看到地方仕紳欺壓販夫走卒，9 歲那年，目睹友人被無理欺負，卻在流氓的解圍下脫困，因此在作文「我的志向」中寫下「當流氓」3 個字。