Street scenes

Taking a walk on the streets of Kabul, here are some of the things you see.

A bunch of "antique" sewing machines that are more useful than modern ones when there's no electricity most of the day (currently we get five hours every other night).
A barber shop, or "saloon", where a man can get a haircut and a headmassage for less than two dollars. Still looking for a place that will give a woman a head massage.
A man fixing the old jeans you threw out last winter.
Children carrying water in whatever receptacles are available, even old motor-oil bottles. Since women typically do not go out of the house alone, and men work long hours, fetching water is usually the task of young children.
A colorful gas station. Gasoline is sold in big plastic dunks, after (probably) being smuggled in from a neighboring country.