n***@gmail.com
2012-01-23 18:33:56 UTC
Is this how/why ET got murdered?
I've read that ET was clubbed to death over a money despute.
For about 10 trips a month, to travel between Park-Hurst
and Edenvale, I've been using the native-taxis.
These trips are often uncomfortable, but never boring.
And are laboratory experiments which prove how
effective free market enterprise can benefit society.
Because I carry 2 big bags I may sit in the row behind
the driver, which is also for mothers with babies.
I avoid sitting in the front row, with the driver, because
I don't want to have to count the money.
Obviously one tries to have the exact fare ready, especially
given the cramped environment, where it's a problem to
reach into your pocket, but last time I had to give a R50-.
Sitting 3 to a row, the convention is for passengers to pool
their payments. So an amount for 2, 3 or 4 passengers is
passed forwards to the driver's row, where 2 passengers
collect the fares and pass the change backwards.
It's a bit chaotic, like a football match, but it works.
So I gave my R50- to my neighbour and she gave
something to the 3rd passenger in our row. And he
passed a R20 across to me, as part of my change.
Then several bundles of cash from behind our row, were
passed to the driver's row.
The money counter in front of me indicated that he needed
R4 in change to 'balance a transaction' which I suspected
was my transaction; so since finding change is often a problem,
and I had R4, I gave it to him.
After the confusion of the change shuffling backwards and
forwards, the passenger beyond my neighbour, handed me
more change.
Since I was confused, I wanted him to check my mental
arithmetic calculations. My reasoning was to calculate the
difference between the total money that I had given, and
the total change that I had received. So I said aloud [for
transparency purposes]: "I gave R54...."
And he said "No".
So I said "I gave R50 plus R4, isn't that R54?".
And he said "what about the R20 that I gave you?"
Since a reply to that would be complex, I turned around and
asked if any passengers behind me could do arithmentic,
and asked " since I gave R50 plus R4, had I not given R54?".
And the one passenger said "what about the money that
you've got in your hand?".
So I'm speculating [because I have no way to be sure] that
their holistic [like a woman thinks vs a scientist's analytical
way. ie. left/right-brain] view, has no way to distinguish
between:
"the money which left my possession since entering the
taxi [irrespective of any other event, including money that
entered my possession] and
"my net payment [considering the change/s which I received]".
Of course the change was correct, and the nimble calculater
who previously denied the figure of R54, even mentioned R54
in his fast-footed explanation.
Was ET clubbed to death because he also didn't know the
native's way of explaining the difference between net and gross?
I've read that ET was clubbed to death over a money despute.
For about 10 trips a month, to travel between Park-Hurst
and Edenvale, I've been using the native-taxis.
These trips are often uncomfortable, but never boring.
And are laboratory experiments which prove how
effective free market enterprise can benefit society.
Because I carry 2 big bags I may sit in the row behind
the driver, which is also for mothers with babies.
I avoid sitting in the front row, with the driver, because
I don't want to have to count the money.
Obviously one tries to have the exact fare ready, especially
given the cramped environment, where it's a problem to
reach into your pocket, but last time I had to give a R50-.
Sitting 3 to a row, the convention is for passengers to pool
their payments. So an amount for 2, 3 or 4 passengers is
passed forwards to the driver's row, where 2 passengers
collect the fares and pass the change backwards.
It's a bit chaotic, like a football match, but it works.
So I gave my R50- to my neighbour and she gave
something to the 3rd passenger in our row. And he
passed a R20 across to me, as part of my change.
Then several bundles of cash from behind our row, were
passed to the driver's row.
The money counter in front of me indicated that he needed
R4 in change to 'balance a transaction' which I suspected
was my transaction; so since finding change is often a problem,
and I had R4, I gave it to him.
After the confusion of the change shuffling backwards and
forwards, the passenger beyond my neighbour, handed me
more change.
Since I was confused, I wanted him to check my mental
arithmetic calculations. My reasoning was to calculate the
difference between the total money that I had given, and
the total change that I had received. So I said aloud [for
transparency purposes]: "I gave R54...."
And he said "No".
So I said "I gave R50 plus R4, isn't that R54?".
And he said "what about the R20 that I gave you?"
Since a reply to that would be complex, I turned around and
asked if any passengers behind me could do arithmentic,
and asked " since I gave R50 plus R4, had I not given R54?".
And the one passenger said "what about the money that
you've got in your hand?".
So I'm speculating [because I have no way to be sure] that
their holistic [like a woman thinks vs a scientist's analytical
way. ie. left/right-brain] view, has no way to distinguish
between:
"the money which left my possession since entering the
taxi [irrespective of any other event, including money that
entered my possession] and
"my net payment [considering the change/s which I received]".
Of course the change was correct, and the nimble calculater
who previously denied the figure of R54, even mentioned R54
in his fast-footed explanation.
Was ET clubbed to death because he also didn't know the
native's way of explaining the difference between net and gross?