is my mum the only one who....

chooses her karung guni?

u see, there are a few gunis who regard my hdb cluster as their territory, and they operate separately, coming at different time slots. most of them honk their presence on weekend mornings.my mother's favourite one is a 40-odd year old china man whom she calls uncle. he comes around on sunday mornings. he's a relatively more hardworking (or can say doesn't work smart) karung guni because he diligently moves along every corridor, announcing his progress by the "thump, thump, thump" of his trolley going down the stairs. in a way, his form of advertising is more effective than the other presumably singaporean gunis who just stand downstairs and honk. they look up only when someone yells "karang guni! 10th floor!".

anyway my mum likes that china one coz he offers abt double the price the others give. unfortunately, we missed him today. there is another guni downstairs honking away, but my mum doesnt want to sell to him, even though we have already moved out the pile of old newspapers. she'd rather move everything back and wait for the china one to return next wk. =P