My blog is at risk of becoming a story about the lives of taxi uncles. Haha :) As some of you may have guessed correctly, I am going to write about the story of the taxi uncle I met today. The uncle saw his taxi friend in front and switched to the other lane to be side by side with his friend so that he can talk for a while as we were waiting for the trafffic. I heard he asked his friend in Hokkien whether his friend bought his car number as it came out as the top price in the 4-d draw.
I asked him later casually whether he recently won 4-d and then he started telling his life story. The uncle has driven taxi for about 22 years. He raised 2 daughters to the university and they are now already coming 30 years old. 2 very filial daughters that gave him and his wife quite a decent amount of allowance every month. He can jolly well retire and survive on the allowance but he prefers to work. In fact he recently brought his daughters to taiwan and even sponsored the trip and shopping there.
Interestingly he also told me that he has quite a luck with all his cabs. Whenever he changes to a new cab, his cab numbers will inevitably come up as 1st or 3rd price in the local 4-d draw within a year. He said his IC number also often comes up as the 1st price in the 4-d draw and proceeded to ask me to buy. Haha but of course I have already forgotten the numbers he gave me as I do not buy 4-d and don't have such luck also.
Seemed really like one lucky uncle. Though luckily he mentioned he is not really a gambler, he just buys not much each time in the 4-d draw.
In addition despite his age he is one hardworking fellow. Starting his driving every day at 4.30am. Wow so early indeed!
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