Saturday, June 26, 2004
Vegetable Trucks
The Vegetable trucks are very strange. They are trucks full of vegetables (duh) and they drive around selling the vegetables out of the back of the truck. That's not strange.
What is strange is that they all have speakers attached to their trucks and they play recordings of something while they're driving or parked. A little strange, but the strange part is that they all ... and I mean EVERY single one ... plays a recording that sounds like it is Communist propeganda in a Maoist concentration camp. It's spooky the first couple times you hear it.
But once you've been here for a few weeks, you just accept it as part of life. In fact, if I don't hear it from time to time it might be strange ... like not hearing street noise after living in New York and Seoul for the past couple years.
What is strange is that they all have speakers attached to their trucks and they play recordings of something while they're driving or parked. A little strange, but the strange part is that they all ... and I mean EVERY single one ... plays a recording that sounds like it is Communist propeganda in a Maoist concentration camp. It's spooky the first couple times you hear it.
But once you've been here for a few weeks, you just accept it as part of life. In fact, if I don't hear it from time to time it might be strange ... like not hearing street noise after living in New York and Seoul for the past couple years.
