Monday, October 19, 2009

A Tale of Two Coolies

This tale begins after a train ride from Amritsar to Delhi. We arrived at Delhi and promptly had our bags unloaded by two coolies. One was old and one was young. After getting off the train we went on to argue about the price of carrying our bags to our car. Coolies are mandated by law to follow a fixed price for carrying luggage, but most of them don't follow it and just make their own price. So after much debate we finally settled on the price of Rs. 250. They went ahead and carried our bags to our car and then demanded a different price because they wouldn't take the 50 rupee note. Well lets just say that they ended up with Rs. 200 instead of Rs. 250 because if it. It was the first time, and will probably be the only time, that I see Coolies refuse money for their services.

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