一位年長的的士司機蔣先生告訴我關於他的故事。雖然他已年近80，但他的駕駛技術令人印象良好。他告訴我他駕駛的士已經超過40年，僅在近幾年，他發覺自己的動作比以前慢了一些。故現在他只在週末駕駛，工作日休息。隨著我們的交談，他變得更開放並且談起了他的過去。他是一名國民黨軍人，在第二次世界大戰的時候與日本鬼子作戰。他拒絕對抗共產黨，因為他說，這是不道德的手足傷殘的行為。他認為，
共產黨在佔領大陸以後做得相當不錯。腐敗不可能真正被清除，它存在於所有的政權機構。即使在香港，他回顧一宗與啟德機場的海關人員有關的事情，一架從柬埔寨開往香港的貨機，甲板上滿載了鴉片。事實上某些“方便費”已放在那海關主管的辦公桌上。如此規模龐大的非法進口讓一個老外審查員感到震驚，畢竟仍能保持冷靜地指揮他的下屬表示他將會在兩個小時後回來再作檢示，到時他只想見到報稱進口的貨品全都是茶葉，根據地那件事便是這樣”搞定”了！
何君堯
A Taxi Driver Story
An elderly taxi driver, Mr Chiang told me about his story. Although he is approaching 80, his driving etiquette was pretty impressive. He told me that he has been a taxi driver for more than 40 years and he only slowed down a bit in recent years. He now drives during the weekend only and take rest on weekdays. As our conversation ran along, he became more comfortable and opened up to talk about his past. He told me he was a Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) soldier and fought against the Japanese in World War II. He refused to fight against the communist because, to him, it was immoral to act against fraternity. Further more he believed that the communists did a reasonably good job after taking over the Mainland. “Corruption can’t really be weeded out, it exists in all governments” he said. Even in Hong Kong, he recalled an incident of the Customs & Excise at Kai Tak Airport, where a cargo plane flying in from Cambodia was fully loaded with opium. A certain “facilitating fee” had already been placed on the desk of the chief in charge well in advance. A foreign inspector was shocked by the enormous scale of illegal import but he was still calm enough to direct his subordinates to arrange those to be replaced with tea being the manifested cargo for his inspection two hours later. Everything was then fixed accordingly.