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Originally Posted by ColdBlood99
Case close, I thought it wasn't bad at all but till I pick up this customer at ...
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From haw par villa mrt I drove toward vivo city but 1 customer flag my taxi at pasir panjang, it's an ang moh who flag my taxi, I stopped and pick him up.
Me: good evening sir, where would you like to go to.
Ang moh: stadium rd!
Me: as usual I would tell the customer that I'm new, so I gps the route.
Never did I know that on sat night it's the Suzuki cup, singapore vs Thailand at our national stadium.
Upon reaching there some of the road close and its horrible traffic causes jam near by all route, everybody finish their watching their game at national stadium
And was rushing home, so I stuck at the 24hr kallang macdonald and I accidently turn in the carpark, it was congested over there and I have problem coming out of the carpark. Gps bring me to holland again.
The ang moh piss off and shouted fuck and its whining the half journey, ask me why I drive him into here, I told him that I make a wrong turn because the gps ask me to enter through here. So he say again fuck the GPS. So I begin to piss off but still I control my emotion and try to drive him to stadium road. "If 10 years ago I would say stfu asshole, this is singapore and not your country" but still I smile at him and say byebye, guess I really grow up. After 5min traffic congested and I finally make my way there so he ask to alight.
The meter fare was $23.50, I didn't know how much is from pasir panjang to stadium road so I gave him an discount $10 off the meter fee.
After that he pay me $13.50 he get happy and get off the cab. After I get off there is an auto booking show national stadium taxi stand, I wouldn't want to pick up customer with he congested traffic, I give it a go and went back to geylang.
Some of the customers think that taxi driver are cheap / useless chap, but i would want to rephrase this, I might be earning the same salary as u or even more.
Please be kind to all taxi driver. Everybody are learning new thing everyday. Practice make perfect.
End of the day after the discount I still earn about $120 after rental and fuel.
Guess not too bad drive from 7pm to 2am++
Day 1 = $100
Day 2 = $120
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Brother, try not to always give discount unless the passenger keeps on asking for discount. For the Ang Mo $10 discount is too much already. If u drive long enough you know there r passengers who kaubei at slightest mistake and want discount.
For me i keep quiet and tell them the amount at end of the trip. If they say why i never discouny then i will ask them how much they want to discount. If not just collect full amount say thank you and go off. There r many cheapskate around. If u keep giving discount, next time all taxis in Singapore need to give discount when got stuck in jam.
just my advice.