Thank you Sifus for the advises...
I will be going down to pick up the round mirror later.
There are some very nice customers and REALLY nasty one. I gave
quite a lot of discount and got quite a bit of tips as well.
I got my first fare evasion yesterday..this guy took my cab and
when reached his destination told me he has no $ to pay me..I did
not lose much so just told him to get off.
But the worst is this..I have the busy sign on and wanted to go
home and rest. Saw this lady flagging fantically so out of
compassion, stopped for her..I say hello, she threw me a black face
and just shouted out Geylang.
I told her I am a new driver, I do not know the best way to
Geylang and if she could show me her best route. She start raging
and raging so I told her I can send her to somewhere else FOC to
get another cab or I can use my GPS...she refused and grungingly
directed me.
On the cab, she called her friend to complain in her broken
english (before that, she asked me if I could speak English). OTW,
since she is talking on the phone and I do not want to go the wrong
way, I keyed in Geylang in my GPS at the traffic light. She started
screaming again, don't play with computer..can you concentrate on
the road.
When reached the destination, she threw the fare in my face
:(
Today..take a rest...program GPS..print out notes on major
places..just throw rental...take a drive with SO (when she off I
off) around...
I think it is not right for customer to throw fare at our face,
tho new, you hv to stand by your dignity and intergrity, it is good
to tell pax that you are new and do not know the road, option is he
or she guide you or that allow you to use your GPS, do it on the
spot before pressing the meter, if she start scolding, logically
tell her that you have not start the meter. If she is not happy,
can get off.
Many I know do keying at traffic lights and on the way, this I
would say is very dangerous, once a pax on board, the mind goes
into window core 5 start up,
core 1, the pax, core 2, the meter, core 3 the GPS, Core 4, the
road, core 5, the place,
When these start to boot at the same time, you go
blur, understand that it is very taxing,
Suggestion is think each at a time, first, the pax, greet and
ask them the destination, tell them you are new and need to do this
and that, once agreed, on meter, then after GPS or be
guided, then move out, the road condition, then follow by the place
(destination) coming into your mind.
Guided by pax is good if pax knows the way, if pax is also those
blur blur type which they have the right to be, then you may also
get into wrong way and get scolded, because some pax dun tell you
to keep right or left
