To give up in order to gain.
A “xe om” (scooter taxi) guy mentioned a city (Lai Thieu?) where one can find all the abandoned carriages (horse or cow).
Hearing that, I flashed back to those early days when I accompanied my grandmother on her monthly trip to receive pension.
We took a bus, and Lambretta . I always got treated to a good lunch, a special bonding. It made me feel needed albeit just a kid.
At Ben Thanh Central Market, we could still find horse carriages leisurely move about in sparse traffic.
Speaking of the here and now. Vietnam finished some “white elephant” projects recently (Can Tho Bridge, Thu Thiemunderwater bridge, Da nang Dragon bridge).
For those people whose livelihood depended on ferrying passengers, modern bridges spelled the end of their earnings.
When Henry Ford tied together two motorbikes to make a four-wheeler, horse carriage operators assumed that his invention would fail (too…
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