Walking into the Taipei Municipal Secured Small Loans Service (SSLS, a government-run pawnshop), you see a middle-aged man dressed in a carefully pressed suit carrying a notebook computer to the desk; it is his collateral to apply for a loan. After he gets his pawn ticket, with some embarrassment he folds it repeatedly and tucks it deep into his wallet, perhaps fearing that his family will discover it.
走進台北市動產質借處（公營當鋪），一名穿著筆挺西裝的中年男子，帶著一部筆記型電腦走向櫃台申請質借，拿到借條後，他害羞地將借條摺了又摺，塞進皮夾深處，似乎擔心被家人發現。