A Question for the Group Mind

[rolanni]

Now, I Understand Perfectly why it is that you don't want to pay the ferryman before you get to the other side. After all, if the fee were paid at the outset, the old fella might very well get tired of you half-way across and leave you to sleep with the fishes.

What I Don't Understand, though, is why you mustn't even fix a price.

Anybody?



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Comments

[kimuro.livejournal.com]

If the crossing is difficult, then the ferryman may feel himself justified to ask for more, but if you don't set the price until you get to the other side, the two of you can haggle to an acceptable price and, possibly, neither feel shorted in the end.

And besides, you never know what will happen in the middle of the journey.