On Friday, next day to thanks giving I planned to go Disney land. I called hotel front desk for taxi. I thought I will get reliable taxi service if I hire it through hotel. Taxi arrived on time and we left for Disney land.
As soon as taxi left hotel premises driver announced "$ 38. It is fixed rate to Disney land. Hotel guys did not tell you? ". Then I realized my mistake of following instinct without enquiry. Day before I checked on internet about taxi rate for yellow cab taxi service and it was about $ 28. Now there was no going back. I accepted my fault and kept quiet.
This driver was very talkative. He was from Indonesia. He guessed that I am from India. He suddenly stared speaking 'Namaste', 'Aap kaise hai?' and some irrelevant Hindi sentences one after other just to show off that he know Hindi. Then he started sharing his experiences with Indian passengers.
He thought that Indians are very conservative. They can go to any extent to save few dollars. Naturally it hurt me. He was criticizing Indians in front of Indian. But I had to listen all that crap as I was new to place and I wanted him to drop me till Disney land.
As we came close to Disney land he started asking 'When you are going back?'. I told him I have not decided yet. Then he gave me his number and asked me to call him while going back. I found it very odd. After speaking all that crap about Indians how he can expect me to call him for ride back to hotel. Then he started explaining How it is very risky to hire Taxi from Disney land area. How they will cheat you and bla bla bla. And he was doing so while he was cheating on me.
While going back I have not called this driver as I had decided as soon as I got down form his taxi. I went to taxi stop and luckily I got taxi with Indian driver. He was very professional. We had nice conversation. He charged me $27 as per meter and gave me his number also.
I think I was lucky to go through these two experience on single day. It really helped me to regain my self esteem to some extent.
As soon as taxi left hotel premises driver announced "$ 38. It is fixed rate to Disney land. Hotel guys did not tell you? ". Then I realized my mistake of following instinct without enquiry. Day before I checked on internet about taxi rate for yellow cab taxi service and it was about $ 28. Now there was no going back. I accepted my fault and kept quiet.
This driver was very talkative. He was from Indonesia. He guessed that I am from India. He suddenly stared speaking 'Namaste', 'Aap kaise hai?' and some irrelevant Hindi sentences one after other just to show off that he know Hindi. Then he started sharing his experiences with Indian passengers.
He thought that Indians are very conservative. They can go to any extent to save few dollars. Naturally it hurt me. He was criticizing Indians in front of Indian. But I had to listen all that crap as I was new to place and I wanted him to drop me till Disney land.
As we came close to Disney land he started asking 'When you are going back?'. I told him I have not decided yet. Then he gave me his number and asked me to call him while going back. I found it very odd. After speaking all that crap about Indians how he can expect me to call him for ride back to hotel. Then he started explaining How it is very risky to hire Taxi from Disney land area. How they will cheat you and bla bla bla. And he was doing so while he was cheating on me.
While going back I have not called this driver as I had decided as soon as I got down form his taxi. I went to taxi stop and luckily I got taxi with Indian driver. He was very professional. We had nice conversation. He charged me $27 as per meter and gave me his number also.
I think I was lucky to go through these two experience on single day. It really helped me to regain my self esteem to some extent.
1 comment:
Hi Abhi,
These type of people you will find everywhere.Just ignore them.
The driver might have told you the crap beacuse in past he may have cheated some Indian and that Indian mighted have screwed him at that moment. And because of same frustration the driver might have behaved like that.
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