Talk and learn

Assignment: Keep a new acquaintance talking about himself or herself without allowing him to become conscious of it. 

Completed: Talked to a cab driver tonight. Found out about his family, his values, his perspective on marriage, the cost of living in Singapore, what he used to work as before he became a cab driver, how much load a cement mixer truck carries (6 m3), how the construction industry was dying a slow death (and consequently cement mixer truck drivers) before the casinos, the two most common ailments of cab drivers (high blood pressure and kidney-related disease), how his wife was more scared of his gambling habit than his having affairs, the stress of providing for a family of four, how he got sweet-talked into buying $40-worth of Taiwanese pudding desserts during CNY at Chinatown last year and why he is avoiding the area this year, how old his two daughters are, and so on and so forth. It was nice for me to learn so many things from this elderly cab driver, who told me to remember his licence plate number and his cab company. Thank you for reading up to here.