It's barely past 5, the sun's breaking the horizon, and I'm woken to a din of drivers tooting their horns eager to get to their 100 kuai per day job in a car bought on credit, a dubious didi, or a deathtrap ebike. Almost got tripped over at 6am yesterday by Nong Ben Johnson sprinting to his standing spot in the local migrant worker square where he'd eat some bing while optimistically waiting - an unbuttoned olive green army jacket revealing a pretty good figure, and a face of determination Johnson would muster to beat.
I feel like a fool suggesting to a taxi driver last month that traffic congestion's a good sign the economy's picking up. No no no noooo.
Solution
Each time you toot your horn, you pay 1 kuai. 100 kuai max deposit at a time then you need to get your phone out, block everyone for 2 minutes clicking through the endless menu options in WeShit or Ali's BaBa. Everyone else behind you toots, they pay. They stop. They recharge. You learn. They learn.
The value of a single egg is value for a renmin. Within two weeks China will have become Covid harmonious again. But with better traffic.
Fucking fucks.
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