/ narrator / @ three ugliness
San ugly is 35 years old. In 2011, he applied for the accounting profession at Deakin University in Australia. This profession was called the immigration profession by the Chinese, so that after that, the three ugly found that eight or ninety percent of the students around them were Chinese people.
In Australia, three ugly choose to drive a taxi this way to work to make money. He also came into contact with a lot of disabled people because of the special vehicles he drove.
In 2001, I first came to Australia to rent for the disabled.
On the day of arrival in Australia, November 26, 2011, it rained heavily and three ugliness temporarily hosted at a friend's house.
When he woke up the next morning, he stood in the kitchen drinking water and looked out of the window-fleeing haze, blue sky and white clouds, sunny, birds and flowers. At that moment, he never liked to run, he even developed the desire to run in such an environment.
This is his first impression of Australia.
Once there, the first problem to be solved by the three ugliness is to make money. Because he spends more than 300, 000 yuan a year over there, his savings are far from enough.
Later, a few years earlier, Australia's high school classmates showed him the way.
This classmate was very interesting. He went to Australia in 2004, touched the path of traditional Chinese students to work, washed dishes in restaurants, picked apples in orchards, and finally discovered the easiest way to earn money. That's-driving a taxi.
In Australia, taxis are mostly driven by Indians, and Chinese know little about the industry.
But in fact, it is especially suitable for three ugly such as foreign students. Because taxis are relatively free to pick up work, they can not pick up when they need to go to class. And its income is very substantial.
Three ugly driving was a kind of "MAXI TAXI" big car, in addition to the driver, can also accommodate 10 passengers.
The income from driving such a car is very impressive.
The first is that the taxi has a government subsidy to solve the travel problem of local disabled people. And even before the car started, passengers in wheelchairs were placed in the car through the crane attached to the car, and there were already 16 Australian dollars in "Lifting Fee" income.
The second is Australia's rule that if the number of passengers exceeds 5, the rate will be raised by about 50%. There are a lot of people in Australia who like to drink in droves and pay a lot more for this kind of work.
02, is there a charade or a sexual harassment in a taxi?
Three ugly first day when driving a taxi, the mood is very nervous.
At 8: 00 that morning, he took the car and watched the job jumping out of the small computer. He just couldn't answer it. He felt that he had not done a good job of psychological construction to face the passengers.
The first passenger was a middle-aged man, busy with three ugliness, greeted the guest, asked him where he was, and entered his destination on GPS.
San Chou has just been in Australia for a few months and is not used to the accent of the Australians. Even after driving for three or five minutes, the guest asked, "where's your watch?" three ugliness found that he didn't even turn on his watch.
In this way, the first order, the total cost of more than twenty yuan, at the end of the 10 yuan, but the three ugly heart is very happy.
Three ugly never drive after 12:00 night train, afraid to meet all kinds of drunken, robbers. The bad guys here know that there is cash in the taxi. The night driver, who takes over with three ugliness, will put a steel pole on the car, and if anyone wants to climb over, he knocks directly.
Sometimes there are passengers who want to escape, often a group of children. Once the spear is found in the conversation with them, he will drive the car directly to the side of the wall, jam the door and tell them that the other side of the door can be opened up and told them that when the spear is found, he will drive the car directly to the side of the wall. Either pay now or don't want to leave.
There is a taxi culture in Australia, called "Sex fare," and some young women, in order to save money, use their bodies and sex for their fares.
Three ugliness met once. In front of a bar, a group of 11 young women passengers, only 10 passengers, one of them want to squat in the car to hide.
Three ugliness knew, this belongs to the violation, the fine is very heavy, so refused to answer. Suddenly the girl went to the copilot and asked, "what about this?" as she said, lifting her T-shirt, she wore nothing in it.
Three ugliness and six gods: what does that mean?
The girl said: You can touch.. You can touch it. )
Three ugly words: No, no, you're still a two-car.
03, I saw a car accident who didn't stop himself.
After driving a taxi for a month or two, something particularly impressive happened to the three ugliness.
At about 11:30 one night, in a suburb twenty kilometers from the center of the city, three ugliness took one order, and seven or eight young men, wearing shorts, slippers, and wine in their hands.
They had just got half the Party at home, so they called a taxi and decided to drink it back in town because it was too late to make any more trouble at home.
On the way to the city, through a two-way single-lane road without a street lamp, he heard a bang, and a motorcyclist took a car to fly.
At that moment, the three ugliness of the brain flashed a variety of questions, how about this person? Would you like to stop and take a look?
But he immediately thought, there are no lights here, not much, besides, there is a group of guests ready to have fun, can not delay their time.
As a result, the three uglies have not yet opened 50 meters, and the people in the whole car almost cried. "Why don't you stop!"
Three ugly thoughts immediately changed, that moment, with some shame, a sentence from the bottom of his heart-"I am still Chinese."
The motorcyclist was a bearded man with tattoos, riding a Harley, bumping into something like a guardrail in the middle of the road and lying down in the middle of the road.
The driver of the three ugliness and the car behind turned on their emergency flasher and protected the position where their moustache fell back and forth.
All the passengers got off the bus, some went to check the beard, some called the police and called for an ambulance, and some stood near the car to see if there were any traffic and maintain traffic order.
When the police lifted his beard to the ambulance, he patted him in the face, and the moustache looked up at the policeman and said, "Oh no, my wife will kill me!"
After that, three ugly continues to take the passenger to the destination bar.
When he got out of the car, the guest said to him, "Sorry, I have taken such a long time, or I will give you more money." three ugliness immediately said that he did not have to give any more money, all saved people, and he talked about what money to pay.
Three ugliness feel very shocked is, the instinct reaction that people encounter this kind of thing is so different.
Later, of course, when he learned more about the local system, he found that he could not rely solely on human nature; in fact, it was more because there was a system behind it.
In Australia, the so-called licence plate fee of 700 to 800 Australian dollars per year is paid, but in fact, only one or two hundred is actually paid to the transport department, and the remaining 600 to 700 is to pay something similar to that of a strong insurance.
This insurance covers only people, and the casualties in traffic accidents are unlimited, and the insurance company will remain responsible until the death of the person.
On the premise of such a system, after a traffic accident, anyone's first thought is to save people, not anything else.
Three ugly passengers.
In the absence of any economic and their own responsibilities of care, touch porcelain, the elderly fall and no one dares to help, these conditions will not happen again.
04. What a handicapped friend taught me.
San Chou met many disabled friends in the course of driving the taxi. Among them was a boy named Owen, who impressed him most.
Irving went to Melbourne to pick him up for the first time when he saw that his wheelchair was unstable, driving and stopping. Three ugliness went over to see if need help, saw Owen first glance, three ugliness did not react a bit.
Irving has no limbs. He put his chin on the wheelchair controller, controls the wheelchair through the activity of his neck, and controls the phone with his nose. Maybe because the neck can't maintain a fixed angle, and the neck is not so flexible, so the wheelchair route is also tortuous.
Owen, with a very happy face, said to three ugliness, hello, very happy.
On the way home from school, the two had been talking. Owen speaks slowly and doesn't pronounce very clearly, but knows the point of what he's expressing, so he doesn't have so much nonsense and goes straight into the subject.
European literature is criminology, in addition to school classes, sometimes to participate in some government organization research, three ugliness will send him to institutions, seminars and so on.
Later, three ugly and Owen talked about their own study, said that Australia is not used to every course to write essay, sometimes feeling unable to write.
Owen smiled and said it was "Easy," and you could argue, Argue, right or wrong. Then the three ugliness essay passed the high score, both of them are very happy.
Three ugliness thinks, Owen and ordinary friend, can give you help, give you their different view, their experience. They are not only enjoying the benefits and assistance of the government system, but also in the normal feedback society, there is no deliberate place.
There is also a guest who takes him and his nurse to the downtown bar every Saturday night and takes them home at about 12:00.
The guest lay in a wheelchair and even lost his ability to speak, but he went to the bar every week, and his family knew he was so happy that they would let him live a little more everyday.
He said that if you have family or friends with disabilities, you also want to take him out for a walk, a stroll, and lead a normal life.
In the three ugliness of the world, disabled people live a very ordinary life, everyone sees disabled people are ordinary people, no special treatment.