Today's conversations with taxi drivers.
One is holding a day job at a factory while driving the night shift on his taxi, in order to support a family of five on an income just over $2K. On top of normal household expenditures, he still has to pay the tuition teacher $15 an hour for tuition classes for one of his children. Luckily his children are quite understanding and are trying to save up now, but he thinks it'll be at least another 10 years till he can see any hope of retiring.

The other is nearly 50 years old and learning to play the saxophone. He told me he was inspired to learn the saxophone cos he wanted to play Careless Whispers on it. Now he can play that, as well as My Heart will Go on. Eh. He mentioned that he paid only $200 for his saxophone, while God paid the remaining $250. It seemed that he picked up $250 one day on the streets, just five $50 bills rolled into a thin cigarette. He thought this was a blessing for him to purchase that saxophone so he did.