Communication

This could never happen in Hong Kong. No, not some geezer talking on his mobile you berk, but sticking up in the middle of a four-lane highway with only a single traffic cone for protection.

While I was trying to take this photo, cars whizzed past the guy’s head with millimeters to spare.

In Hong Kong, the whole road, no, neighbourhood! would have been closed down to allow this guy to do his thing inside a manhole. In China you just put up a cone, then rely on people’s senses to do the rest. So all right, a blind driver could have been out that day. In China, that’s just a risk they have to take.