I experienced the worst taxi ride of my life last week.
- Honestly, it was an incredibly awkward ride with some instances that gave me cause for worry.
I was picked up at the airport and was meant to be taken downtown to the hotel I had a room booked at. It should have been a pretty simple, straightforward experience. Unfortunately the driver’s English was very broken. I was able to communicate the address to him just fine, but once we got on our way he turned the radio on extremely loud to a channel I could not understand due to the language. I was willing to bear with that but what I couldn’t stand was how high he was running the air conditioning in the car. Vents in the back of the car were blowing cold air from the air conditioner straight on me and it was unbearably cold. The vents in the back didn’t have the same covers as the ones in the front, so I couldn’t close them on my end, so I tried asking the driver if the air conditioner could be turned down. He either couldn’t hear me over the radio or didn’t understand, or maybe he simply didn’t care, but whatever the case I was ignored and the arctic blast from the air conditioning never wavered. What made things even worse is that he answered his phone in the middle of the trip! I was really uncomfortable and didn’t feel safe with that at all. I was happy when we finally arrived at the hotel. When I went to pay him I gave exact change from what the toll said I owed, and he gave me a rather rotten look for the lack of a tip, but he didn’t deserve one after that.
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