The change experiment
Door: mireilleindia
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30 Maart 2012 | India, Poona
For the last one-and-a-half years I am wondering: Who steals the change in India? Whatever you do, wherever you are, or to whomever you give money: nobody has change! I am begging at least at 5 stores a day to break my notes, just to pay the rikshah walla.
Last week I was so sick and tired of it that I started my ‘change experiment’. I took a rikshah and had to pay 35 rupees only. Proudly I gave him a 100 rupees note and waited for the expected: ‘no change ma’m’. ‘Well’, I replied, ‘No change Sir’. And stayed in the rikshah.
Again he turned around and said – looking very helpless- :‘ no change ma’m’. And I was stubborn and replied:’ no change Sir’. If he wants my money, why am I the one that needs to walk around in 40 degrees asking 20 people for small notes? Only because he does not have a single rupee change after a whole day of work!
Then slowly - after 10 minutes - his hand went into his pocket and a big pile of 10 and 20 rupees notes emerged. There is my answer, and when I got my 65 rupees back I left the rikshah satisfied and proud.
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31 Maart 2012 - 08:30
Richard S:
Meer dan leuk! :-) -
01 April 2012 - 14:25
Hetty Thijssen:
Je kunt met recht trots op jezelf zijn. Een prima actie. -
03 April 2012 - 07:06
Carla Mama:
Hoe is het mogelijk!
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