Ugly Cabbies
Stayed in the office till 12am last night. Had to rush for a fund launch coming next Monday. Everyone left the office and I was all alone. Pretty freaked out coz at around 11 plus, I heard music from my colleagues work station. So I smsed my boss and told her that I will get the agency to email her for her approval and I dashed out of the office. No encounter of the 3rd kind but a bit spooked...
Today I left earlier at 9 and was so drained that I decided to take a cab. But to my surprise, I could not get any till half an hour later. What happened was there was a queue at the taxi stand and in front and behind were tourists. I couldn't help but overhear their conversation and the one in front of me told a guy in the queue that she waited for about 20 mins at the main road but no taxi would stop because they ranting about how long they have been waiting for. And while I was in the queue, I noticed that all the taxis that zoomed past were indeed on call.
Then another two ladies spoke to a lady in the queue and asked her why are there taxis on call. The naive tourists were explained that the taxi drivers are not really on call but merely waiting for people to call and book a cab because they would have to pay $1.20 more. The tourist were pretty amused and so asked why this was so. So the kind lady expalined to her how the booking charges go and all. Anyway they got tired of waiting and asked the lady in front of them to help them book a cab. And you can pretty much guess, before the lady managed to get the car license plate from the cab company on the phone, the taxi had already reached the taxi stand in less than 1 minute!!
I'm uterly disgusted by that behavoiur and reinforced my determindation NOT to call for a cab. All these sneaky taxi drivers just loitoring around to wait for people to call and book for a cad and refuse to pick those in the taxi queue and there were like 6 of us in the queue. In future I wou;dn't even let them make a cent out of me, it's NEL, MRT, SBS all the way...
Maybe I should write in to the forum about it....
3 comments:
Absolutely!!! I know exactly what you mean!!! It's ridiculous!!!!!
Woe is me. Every night, the noisy karaoke music below my office drives me nuts and the taxis are nowhere to be found. Can't work, can't go home.
What to do?!
Maybe join in the karaoke.
I just feel so disgusted, totally, absolutely disgusted by that kinda of behaviour and I refuse to call and book a cab and let them justify their "on call" notice. Like what the *beep beep* man. I'll be better off boosting the economy by taking the public transport.
but cabs are like life-savers! very impt! i hate sharing transport with the rest of singapore :(
smelly pple, sweaty shirts and just yuck yucks
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