Discussion
The Soul of a Pedicab Driver
xnx: Quite different than the scam pedicabs that operate in US cities now.
raddan: What’s the scam?
Waterluvian: They’ll end up charging you like $120 for a 10 min trip by just being deceptive and evasive about the fee structure.
ndsipa_pomu: They're popular in London too. The scam seems to be that if tourists don't arrange the price beforehand, it'll be arbitrarily inflated - they don't run a meter like a licensed taxi.
fdghrtbrt: Jarring to see a white person doing this job.I saw this not because I think certain types of jobs should be done by certain types of people, but because that's what I see happening. So even before reading I knew this guy was going to be unusual in all sorts of ways.Nice read, thanks for sharing.
ndsipa_pomu: Haven't visited Oslo, but I thought Norway was largely a white-skinned population. Why would it be jarring to see a white person doing any kind of job, or are you referring to some kind of job division racism?
