Driving taxi is a small business by itself, and TDs like
us are consider small poor entrepreneur, a sole
properiator working for himself with no subordinates, that bring us
to business. And in every business there are risks, creditors and
debtors risk, you cannot ensure that the customer will paid,
they can run away or make a default payment or complain
here and there just to get discount.
Same goes to our business, the risk is there, but as long as the
gain outweight the risk, we go for it, I also took kids before, who
just open taxis door and run away, take what IC or pass? Uncle
cannot run as fast as them leh, lan lan call police, then drive on
lor, you can even find some good pax who said go 7/11, then
put $20 on yr tray just in case he did not return, and i got once,
this guy never come back after he placed $50 on the tray, waited 15
minutes, went down look for him, cannot find, drive off lor.
So i believe all these cheating and evading paying fares is part
and parcel of our trade, just be wary of it, just be blessed that
in our country, most paxs are still ok and nice peoples who honor
our services and pay their fares, but then in every society, there
are rotten eggs, we should consider ours very less already.
