nready wrote:Interloper wrote:Darth,
When I was in India, I was sitting in a park in New Delhi and saw a professional earwax remover making his rounds. He politely went up to people relaxing in the park, brandished the tools of his trade - sticks and scoops of various shapes - stated his price and went to work whenever someone accepted his services. It's a living.
Now that would bother the hell out of me, someone else digging in my ear. So that said, what other types of profession do they have that I don't ever want to have to say leave me along please
now. I mean don't want to sound rude, but heck it sounds like it calls for just that.
India is a nation of service providers it seems. Because there are so many people, and not enough jobs, people do whatever they can to make a livelihood. Folks get used to having people offer to carry their bags, do personal grooming chores on them in public and the like.There are a lot of niches like earwax cleaner. I think the man was also offering to trim nose hairs for an extra rupee.