Taxi service
A friend of mine often takes a taxi ride between home and work. Both are near a main street in his city, so many taxis cover the route, charging a fare which is identical to the price of a bus ticket.
A few days ago, on the way back from work, the driver of the taxi decided that instead of going all the way to drop my friend, he wants to go in a different direction, to another city. So he stopped mid-route, gave my friend his fare money back, and told him to get off the cab.
My friend tried to argue, but to no avail. The driver didn’t care he agreed to carry him, and was mid route. He didn’t care that the time needed to drop my friend at his home station would have only been a few minutes of driving. He decided he prefers to get better fares on an inter-city drive, and wants to do so immediately.
He stopped at a place where another cab was parking. So he told my friend to use the other cab, and that he won’t have any problems. And drove off.
The other cab was standing there because the driver was eating at a nearby stand. And was not willing to stop just in order to carry one passenger for a short distance (Can’t fault him for that, really).
My friend did catch another cab a few minutes later, and arrived home safely, but that was some lousy experience.
March 13th, 2005 at 12:26 EET | Categories: Cars |
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