the in-resistable trap

well, when you are first time in New york city, you may want to go to the Status of Librety, or the Empire State Building. in general, every touristic city, there is always some place must be visit.

so, i am falling a trap. the price to the touristic place is often un-reasonably high, (excpet washington DC, the museums their are all free!! and Great!) however, if you don;t go there, you will somehow regreted when you leave.

so, i go to the Empire State building. the entrance fee is 18USD, just for go up to 86th floors above ground. well, in avange, you spend 1USD to go up 4.8 floor. or you spend 1.7 HKD to go each floor, sound fair enough, coz the building costed 41 million USD. anyway, i hope the elevator goes slow. but the fact is, they got the fastest one in the time its complete. 8 second for 10 floor. thats mean, i spend 2 HKD per second. ok, i hope it worth to burning money in this way.

when i waiting to buy ticket, there is a sales, trying his best to sell the audi-tour. "only 20 USD more, you can have great detail expanation of the city, without that, you don;t knwo what you are looking at...... (skipped 100million words)" i said in my mind "fuck it, i can take picture on the top and serach to the web if i really want to know which building is which. google earth is a great thing, except it don't has night version. by the way, why i need to know that? is it really instreating?"

and the most silly thing is, they will take a picture to you in front of a green screen, and use computer to put you on a picture of the builing. it is free for take picture. oh, they are business man. when you are leaving, they will give you a hard copy of the picture, and said "20 dollars you can take it home." oh, thanks, my picture is not so good. and i gonna to waste your time and cost to print it out. you already charge me for 18 dollars and you don't give me that fucking photo for free?? you're mother fucker?

in my estimation, they can earn about 360usd per second (say selling 20 tickets a time), and they open from 8am to 1:35am, around 19 hours a day, 360X60X60X19 = 24 million a day!!

well, being a tourist and this is international city, who can resist to go there??

thing to learn: to make an in-resistable place for tourist, then you got a money-tree!!