Just now around 5pm(25th Nov 2006), we were waiting for cab at
Sentosa to leave that place. I was carrying my girlfriend's
dog(silky terrier) in a carrier bag with only dog's head exposed.
After waiting for 5 minutes, two Caucasians came along. One of them
asked us if we are waiting for taxi and we replied yes so they just
stood near and behind us.
After a while, a Mercedes cab slowed down and we thought he is
stopping for us but it actually drove past us and stopped directly
in front of the two Caucasians which is 3-5 meters away from us.
The two Caucasians talked to the taxi driver for a while and one of
them gestured us to walk over to hop in because they knew we
reached there earlier (appreciate them for this). My girlfriend
walked over first and the taxi driver straightaway showed a very
rude shoo-shoo hand signal either telling us to shoo off or he
don't want to pick us, which i happened to see too. I guess the two
Caucasians saw it too.
Then he continued on discussing with the two Caucasians sort of
like asking them if they still wanna board the taxi. However, the
two Caucasians never board the taxi. For what reasons, i don't
know. I hope it's not because the two Caucasians looked down on
that taxi driver?
This is really a disgrace to other good Singapore Taxi drivers. And
to think he's a Mercedes cab driver. I don't even know how this guy
was selected to drive the Mercedes cab in the first place. I
thought Mercedes cab drivers are carefully selected by the taxi
companies?
He can give a hundred reasons for rejecting us such as pet phobia
or whatever reasons but he's definitely not right to give us a shoo
off hand signal without even taking a second look at us or speak to
us politely. Imagine we are just another pair of tourists and this
kind of service will definitely leave a very bad impression. So
what's all the big deal about claiming Singapore has one of the
best public transport infrastructure/service around the
world?
Anyway, thinking to write a complaint letter but we only got the
car plate number SHB6636X and don't know what company that cab is
from. So i can only share with you guys here.
