Interesting things about a business trip

One day in June more than a decade ago, I suddenly accepted a special mission. the factory director arranged for me to travel to the northwest to go to a city environmental protection monitoring station to replace a batch of faulty 100W high-speed motors on the faulty atmospheric suspended particulate sampler.

Due to the pressure of the other party's phone call, the factory department has even asked the friends of Shanghai Station to buy train tickets, and the factory director who went to the railway station for me to drive has also filled up with gasoline and ready to go. It can be said that everything is ready, except for the east wind. As long as I bring the maintenance tools and several replacement spare new motors, I can get the reserved ticket at the Shanghai station and go to the first line of emergency repair.

Business trips of after-sales service personnel are commonplace for the instrument industry. Why is the factory so energetic, spare no effort, and attach great importance to it? This is because although the environmental protection instruments have high technical gold content and rich profits, the output is small and the user area is narrow, so the market competition is fierce and does not have a wide range of natural advantages over household appliances. A city environmental protection monitoring station is a big customer of our factory, a regular customer, dabbling in almost all types of products in the factory, and this year we plan to buy 800000 yuan worth of instruments from our factory. for the factory, which is in bad luck and sales are at a low ebb, it is the gospel of helping the poor and getting rid of difficulties in heaven. There is no doubt that it is a shot in the arm for critically ill patients who are struggling to die on the line of life and death.

But the other side threatened: do not bring the malfunctioning machines in front of them back to life and rejuvenation, and the business behind them will not be honored. How dare the factory director take it lightly? Moreover, to form the strongest lineup, I, an old wizard who is engaged in the research and development of new products in the technical department, put down his work, obeyed his dispatch, and rushed to a certain city in a hurry.

From the map, the distance between a city and Shanghai seems to be about the same as that of Chongqing, but it is also an express, which is much faster and arrives at a city in the northwest in just one day or two nights. But before I could see the true face of this strange city, an unexpected dispute occurred.

When I was pulling the luggage cart with the motor and passing through the exit like a flood of passengers, I was accidentally stopped by the ticket inspector! As if I were as connected as a soul, the ticket inspector immediately handed me over as if I were a suspect to a waiting man next to me.

A chubby middle-aged woman in uniform asked in a condescending tone: what's on the side here? Please open it!

Motor, prepared for maintenance. I humbly replied that I had passed the baggage X-ray examination before I got on the bus in Shanghai.

Helplessly, it is normal for other people to check whether there are any prohibited items. We passengers have nothing to say and have an obligation to cooperate, so I had to open the seal of transparent tape for her to check. However, I wonder, if there is any contraband, can I get on the bus?

She glanced and asked quietly, "have you ever checked your luggage?"

I'm not overweight, overtall or overlong, so I didn't check my luggage at Shanghai Station. I, Vivino, tell the truth.

Shanghai is Shanghai! This is here. As she spoke, the fat woman tried to carry the luggage cart, which might not be as heavy as she had expected. as a result, the baggage cart was too hard, and the luggage cart was so high that she staggered and almost knocked the box over on her feet, but there was no doubt that she would pay 50 yuan for luggage!

If you want me to pay for baggage, you have to weigh it first. I said reluctantly: according to the regulations, passengers can carry 20 kilograms of carry-on luggage. Have I exceeded it? it counts only if I have weighed it.

Why won't you pay 50 yuan? good! As soon as the fat woman saw that I refused to give in, she became angry: then you can spend time here, wait for the next bus, and then take it back to Shanghai!

To tell you the truth, when I live to be in my 50s, I have seen a lot of messing around, and I have never met such an unreasonable one! What a surprise! Helplessly, Qiang long could not beat the snakes on the ground, and the scholar could not explain clearly when he met the soldier, so I had to obediently pay for the road.

When I got out of the station, the fat woman snickered and said as if she had won the battle: no matter how crazy people are, even if they go to the sky, when they reach my mother's boundary, they have to be subdued!

I really don't understand why this woman has such deep prejudices and grudges against her countrymen.

Interestingly, when I came back, although I had changed the motor, I still took this train and the railway station, but no one forced me to pay for my baggage.

Author: Ma Dingqi