Thursday, 11 March
I picked up
a woman pax (around mid forty) from Science Park 1(along the Sci Pk
Dr) wanting to go to Singapore Casket (Lavender) at around 20.30pm
on a weekday.
Me : “No
problem. Let’s go through AYE then CTE then through
Balestier”
Pax : “ Why
are you taking a big round to go there? The last time the driver go
through Holand Road, Orchard, then Newton there”.
In my heart
I thought “WTF?!?! Going that way will
take through at least one hundred and twelve traffic lights!!”
But what came out from my mouth was
“Sure can…. No problem”. Damn. I am such a hypocrite (correct
spelling??) bastard. J
To be frank
at that time (and even up to now) when a pax tell me a destination,
I could only connect from pick up point to destination, and if
there are few options can only agar which one is
the best way to choose. I still don’t know exactly which way is
shortest (see further comment
below)
Moving
along Buona Vista she blurted out “ Maybe we can go down
Portsdown….” WTF?!? Just now did not
want to go AYE now want to go Portsdown. But I just pretend I
didn’t hear that and continue.
Then this
is the best part. When reaching Holland Rd, she said “Do you know.
If we go down Clementi Rd and then Bukit Timah there (she meant
Dunearn) will it be faster?” I nearly say “You want to go through
KJE Mam?” but managed to say “Don’t think so lah. I think last time
the taxi driver uncle got the BEST way”.
You know
how sometimes we get a little bit of delay at the traffic light in
front of the Shaw House? We wouldn’t even call it a jam, but from
the backseat suddenlay came “Uncle, just now if we went straight to
Grange Rd and come down here maybe it is faster?” Wahlau, honestly
at that point of time I nearly say ”Mam, shall we stop the meter
here and then I let you drive my cab to Lavender?”. But of course,
all drivers in Poolie group here are courteous drivers one and will
never loose temper like that.
Coming to
Newton Rd she said again “Do you know how to go to Balestier from
here? I can’t remember how the driver go the other day” Of course
lah. It is just straight and you get there what. I was thinking,
maybe the uncle driver brought her through Thomson Rd and then the
brighter side of Balestier before continue down the dull side of
Balestier and Lavender??
Before
reaching the traffic light in front of Singapore Casket (I was in
the right lane, mind you) she told me to just stop before the red
light. I wonder why is that woman so control freak and
stingy???
So guys,
remember. If you happen to pick up a bespectacled, straight short
haired, mid forty 75% woman pax from
along Science Park Drive, you have been warned. This woman had been
trained by the best uncle driver in Singapore !
