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Unexpecting the Expected

Close to midnight, after giving up on me being a customer, 3 rick-shaw drivers are fine to just hang out around Barkhor Square, Lhasa, chat about the day's events and and smoke heavy Chinese cigarettes. Somewhere a phone rings and one driver unexpectedly pulls a RAZR phone out of his trouser pocket and takes a call from his wife.

It was the middle of winter and there were relatively few passengers. The cost of this device related to his income? My perceived cost vs. his actual cost. A practical design choice in his line of work? Does it matter?

Writing from Tokyo | March 18, 2006 | Permalink