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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.