Traffic laws in Taiwan II

Well, remember what I said about anything goes in Taiwan?? haha- not quite-- I almost got a ticket! The whole situation happened something like this: There is an intersection on my way home where I have to turn left, but the light takes FOREVER to change, so a lot of the time, if I see that the the turn left arrow is illuminated (this is for cars only... scooters have to turn kind of right into a special area in front of the traffic going the direction you want to go) I will just pretend I am a car and turn left too. Well, one day, there was a policeman there waiting for violators like me. He waved his little wand at me to signal for me to turn over. The conversation follows:
Officer (in Chinese). "(Your driver's license please)"
Me: *blink* *blink* "Excuse me?"
Officer: "(You can't turn left at an intersection on a scooter. Your driver's license please.)"
Me: *blink* *blink* "Sorry? What?"
Officer: *exasperated sigh* "(You are on a scooter.)" He points to scooter, then draws picture of intersection for me. While drawing on paper continues to explain in Chinese what I did wrong. "(You have to turn into the scooter lane and wait for the light to change. You can't turn left on a scooter.)"
Me: "Oh, so what your saying is that I have to turn right first, then go straight across the intersection the direction I want to go?"
Officer: *nods* "(Please pay more attention.)"
Me: "Oh, OK, thank you. Bye bye!"
Officer: *motions for me to leave* "(Please pay more attention)"
Me: "Bye!"

Close one eh! Sometimes, it is nice to be a foreigner... I can pretend I don't understand Chinese... hehehe. The officer feels like it would be too much trouble to deal with me and sends me on my way. Buuut... I think I might not break so many traffic laws in the next couple weeks :)