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Small System

不是只有边境才有规则。

打油这回事,每个国家都不同。 Some countries require you to pay first, then pump petrol. Some countries let you pump petrol first, then pay later.

For local people, this is normal. For overlanders, every country quietly asks you to relearn a small rule. You do not only cross borders. You cross daily habits.

A petrol station looks simple, but it contains a country’s trust system: who pays first, who is trusted to pump first, and what kind of daily order everyone silently follows.

Petrol station habits change from country to country: pay first or pump first.

Heart Statement

Even a petrol pump has a local logic.

Every country teaches a traveller again, even through something as ordinary as refuelling.