Is the world too chaotic or people are too kind

A few days ago, I went to Ximending and passed the Zhonghua Road Audio-Visual Appliance Street, which is known as "Taiwan Akihabara". The installation art on the street is unique, especially this public seat in the shape of earphones, which is very local. . Seeing this public seat in the shape of earmuffs, memories of buying headphones on Zhonghua Road when I first arrived in Taipei suddenly flooded my mind.

Boss who sits on the floor

Because my father likes good speakers, I have been influenced by my ears and eyes since I was a child, and I can still hear the sound of speakers and earphones more or less.

At that time, I really wanted to buy a headset with better sound quality, but because I was not familiar with the environment when I first came to Taipei, I only knew that there were many stores selling audio headsets on Zhonghua Road, so I went to Zhonghua Road and randomly picked a store with a lot of headphones to inquire. . After listening to my needs, the boss generously handed me a small earmuff earphone for me to try.

Music came slowly from the earphones. Strange? Why doesn't this sound match the earphone design at all? The treble is muddy, the bass is not prominent, the sound has no sense of space, and the quality is worse than that of earplugs.

After taking off the earphones, I asked about the price, and I wanted to know the price level.

"If you want it, I'll sell it to you for 1,000 yuan!"
"No, thank you." The boss probably thought I was a fool, so I put down the earphones.
"Otherwise, 700 yuan will be fine." I gave the boss a smile that didn't break the top hat and planned to leave.
"Okay, let me sell you for 300 yuan! The lowest price." After declining the boss, I left without looking back.

Obviously, depending on whether the guests are still students, the boss raised the price on the ground. The quality is comparable to 199 yuan headphones, but the asking price is 1,000 yuan . The boss sees me as a simple and easy-to-deceive student, and I see the boss as a greedy businessman.

A bowl of 500 yuan beef noodles

In the era of unequal information in the early years, there were many cases where products were bought expensive or were cheated!

Before I went north, my father told me to be careful when eating outside. If the price of the food in the store is not marked, don’t go in to patronize it. The chance of being cheated is very high. This reminder originated from the fact that when he was young and just finished his military service, he once visited Taipei with his friends. He was charged 500 yuan for a bowl of beef noodles in Ximending for lunch.

A bowl of beef noodles costs 500 yuan, which is still very expensive in this day and age.

A while ago, the 300 yuan milkfish maw attracted criticism from many netizens; if there were google reviews back then, a bowl of 500 yuan beef noodles would definitely be favored by reporters and friends and won many one-star praises.

The boss saw that the young man was a foreigner from the countryside, so he charged them 500 yuan each to create a one-time huge profit. At the same time, he planted a bad shadow of Taipei people in his father's heart. Unexpectedly, many years later, her daughter would encounter a similar incident in Ximending. Fortunately, her ears were trained since she was a child and she was not successfully murdered.

The world is messy, but maybe it's not bad, it's just that sometimes we are too kind and defenseless .