Taxi Woes

Taxi drivers are both the demon and the angel. While most are in this line to make a decent living, quite a handful want the money to flow in fast in the shortest time.




I wonder how many of you with durians cargo, hail a cab and was turn away by kiasu drivers ? There is no who's right or wrong this instance because the fruit indeed can cause a stink long after a pax got off. Those who got rejected because of the durians cannot complain to the taxi company as the fruits are banned from public transport.
But as time are bad for cabbies, many are accepting pax with durians.
Some drivers request to turn off the aircon and wind down the windows as it greatly help to reduce the odour which the angmo tourists would have jump from a moving cab to get away !




Another matter of contention is a passenger hails a cab and may want to stop at a mid-destination to fetch someone or something and ask the cabby to wait for a short while. Some drivers who has been warned of past experiences by fellow cabbies about passengers getting off without ever returning, is reluctant to agree to the arrangement so they either want to terminate the trip, or ask the pax to put a "deposit" such as $10.

Stories abound of cabbies being offered "services" by female pax as an excuse for not having enough money to pay the fare. Whether the offers were taken, the cabbies are not saying.