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Description
Mr. Harrison describes the Canadians' tendency to overpay rickshaw drivers in Kowloon. Soon there seem to be no drivers around. Mr. Harrison speculates that the rickshaws were parked in favor of visits to the local bars.
Transcription
We used to go for rickshaw rides and, of course, the Hong Kong money we had so much of it compared to the British. We’d give a dollar, a Hong Kong dollar to a rickshaw driver and he’d be there two hours later when we came out, “You come my rickshaw ,you come my rickshaw!” And the British got quite nasty about it that we were giving them too much money because they would just give them 10 cents to run 15 minutes and after a while now that I think about, after the first few days, within a week, all the rickshaws were lined up and the runners were getting out and getting drunk, I guess, and that because there was no runners. We couldn’t get a rickshaw for a while. We give them too much money.
Catégories
Overpaid Rickshaws
Médium
Video
Propriétaire
Veterans Affairs Canada
Guerre ou mission
Second World War
Emplacement géographique
Pacific Ocean
Campagne
Hong Kong
Personne interviewée
George Harrison
Branche
Army
Unité ou navire
Winnipeg Grenadiers
Military Rank
Sergeant
Occupation
Section Leader
Durée
0:54