Street Vendors

In my last post I was talking about street vendors, more precisely children who sell goods at traffic signals. I have observed that most of the time it is the people from lower to middle classes, who actually buy goods from them. Do they actually use the goods they buy? I doubt that, may the lower classes but not the middle classes. Moreover, even in case of beggars, it is the same group who take a rupee or two out of their pockets. Very often I have seen the Honda Citys and Sonatas and Mercs rolling up their windows in disgust when these little kids come to them to sell or beg. It is very astonishing that those who can share easily are so stingy.

@ originally posted on 7/31/06 while I was in Bangalore