Tao of the Dishonest Cab Driver
Feb 23, 2024 9:49:38 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Feb 23, 2024 9:49:38 GMT -5
Tao of the Dishonest Cab Driver
Now this is a humdinger. Yesterday I had an appointment at a clinic which is approx. a 12-minute drive away. All the cab driver had to do was to cross a bridge over this mile wide river, and go straight ahead. Instead, this bozo starts gabbing about all kinds of different subjects, turns the cab in the opposite direction and expects me to be ignorant of what is going on.
Strangely, he assumed that I was unfamiliar with where the hospital was located though I old him I had a double hernia repair there. Now, when I informed him that he was going in a roundabout way, he became infuriated. Demanded to know why I didn't tell him that I knew the shortest way, and vehemently insisted that he had the right to charge a passenger far more if he thought that the passenger was ignorant of the shortest route to his destination.
Strangely, he assumed that I was unfamiliar with where the hospital was located though I old him I had a double hernia repair there. Now, when I informed him that he was going in a roundabout way, he became infuriated. Demanded to know why I didn't tell him that I knew the shortest way, and vehemently insisted that he had the right to charge a passenger far more if he thought that the passenger was ignorant of the shortest route to his destination.
Yes, I know, many readers would have gone upside his head. However, as a Christian, I am not supposed to react that way. Moreover, the purpose of my getting in the cab was not to wind up in jail because I went upside a cab driver's head. Neither did I want to provoke him into leaving me in the middle of the highway by demanding that I get out of his cab.
In any case, I never expected a cab driver to say that he has the moral right to cheat if he feels the passenger is ignorant of the shortest way to his destination. It adds insult to injury.
Well, the only way I finally got this loudmouth thief to shut his flapping snout was to inform him that I am a college graduate and I took ethics and know for a fact that what he is doing is ethically wrong. Then he finally stopped flapping his lips.
Never told me why he had so confidently assumed that I am totally ignorant of the shortest route, but I am sure that it's because, in his primitive mentality, he assumed that, I as a Latino, must have definitely been ignorant.
No he is not white, he is an African American. Now, I had assumed the same about him, based on race, then he would be all over the place yelling racism.
In any case, I never expected a cab driver to say that he has the moral right to cheat if he feels the passenger is ignorant of the shortest way to his destination. It adds insult to injury.
Well, the only way I finally got this loudmouth thief to shut his flapping snout was to inform him that I am a college graduate and I took ethics and know for a fact that what he is doing is ethically wrong. Then he finally stopped flapping his lips.
Never told me why he had so confidently assumed that I am totally ignorant of the shortest route, but I am sure that it's because, in his primitive mentality, he assumed that, I as a Latino, must have definitely been ignorant.
No he is not white, he is an African American. Now, I had assumed the same about him, based on race, then he would be all over the place yelling racism.