Tuesday, October 26

Flat tire

Was going to have lunch at my ordinary place this morning and went out to take my scooter. But what do you know, a flat tire! Luckily there is a shop just next to the company what can fix flat tires so I went there to fix it. Talked with the guy who repaired it, he's one of those millions of people who have moved from smaller regions to Beijing "New urban citizen". He came to Beijing almost the same time as me in 2008, now he has his "bike shop" next to a small local market. The bike shop does not have a roof or even a door. It's just a locker filled with tools so it gets pretty cold in the winter to sit outside waiting for customers. The guy, Wang is just 22 years old and comes from Dongbei province in north east of China. He told me that he hasn't found any girlfriend mostly because the lack of money, very few girls want to go out with guys here that don't have enough money because they are not a "stable" choice. I didn't even have enough money to pay him but he still said that it doesn't matter (ill give him the remaining 1 euro tomorrow as surprise). His salary is probably just somewhere between 1000-2000 yuan a month which is the normal pay for this kind of job...

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