Hu Shan-fu tells us about his own "pet peeve": "Why is it that tour buses can make it up here, but the public buses can't?" Hu Shan-fu is talking about the convoys of Hsiukuluan raft-trip tour buses that wind through his hometown every summer. These buses roll past non-stop, while the children at Chimei often have to live at their school for lack of busing.
「為什麼遊覽車都可以上來了，公車還不能通」，胡善富說起他的家鄉，一到夏天秀姑巒溪的泛舟熱季，一部又一部的遊覽車便開上來；可是平時奇美孩子卻因為沒有公車而需要住校念書。