If each of the traffic assistants brings his or her own style to the job, what seems to unite them is a deep wonder about what puts people in such a hurry nowadays, and an almost philosophical resignation about their powerlessness to do anything about it.
"You see these five fingers," said Wu Wei, a 54-year-old agent who works in the heart of the commercial district. "Some of them are long and some of them are short, and it's the same with the people you meet every day. Some are poor, some are scalawags, and they all have different educational levels.
"What can be done other than accepting reality?" he asked.
RSS