"We are all slow-moving beasts of burden," jokes a Mr. Su, a retired engineer from the government highway bureau. Any intelligent businessmen, he muses, would never hire workers like these, who labor only when they have a sense of purpose. "Anyway," he adds, "we'd never hire ourselves out to anyone!"
公路局工程隊工程師退休的蘇先生開玩笑說，精明的老闆絕對不會花錢請這種邊做邊玩的工人，「我們也不會讓人家請！」