Cycle-rickshaw
When I went to Kanpur the thing which saddened me the most was to see ‘cycle rickshaw’ drivers. It is a lot of hard work driving these in a city like Kanpur where temperature reaches 45C in summer (that is 113K) and humidity almost does not exist.
I was appalled to see them in Munich too. However I soon learned that many of them do it for different purposes. I asked one young girl, and she replied - I drink too much bier, eat a lot during weekdays and need to get rid of those calories. This is my ‘paying-me-gym’. Another fellow told me he does it for fun on the weekends, it is his second job and takes care of his expenses for the weekend. I’m yet to meet somebody who is doing it as his/her day job.
These two were actually planning to go for a soccer game the same evening and were happy that they had ‘gut-business’ day.
