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2023/05/11 16:21:43瀏覽456|回應0|推薦10 | |
Yesterday, my two younger brothers, who came from Canada, and I went to visit our elder brother, who lives alone in a high-rise apartment in some district of New Taipei City. At supper time, we decided to buy something from a takeout place so that we could have our dinner at home more leisurely. Hence, I went out with a younger brother to a nearby takeout store that sold Cantonese roast meat. We ordered half a duck, a slice of pork, and some others. Not long after I sat on a stool to watch the TV news, I heard my brother arguing with the owner of the shop. Then I stood up to see what had happened. My brother said that when the girl who was in the middle of chopping the roast pork we bought came to her, an older woman, seemingly the lady owner, came to her and whispered something sotto voce, and the girl lightly nodded. Then an unbelievable thing happened. As the girl chopped the pork to nearly the end, she stopped and left the residual part uncut. She put the cut parts in the plastic box as our order and continued to finish cutting the residual as the part of the order pertaining to the order of another customer, who wanted a fried rice of roast pork and two kinds of Cantonese sausages combined. The lady owner insisted, weakly, that the pork they gave to another customer was taken from another slice. But my brother said he had seen the entire procedure by which that girl was chopping, and to see is to believe. He then accused the store of short-changing their customer; nevertheless, we still paid in full and ignored the argument, and we left with our orders. Well, the whole thing is a question of honesty. It is a serious one for our society and the "country".
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