HappyHacker wrote:.....
Then compounded by the taxi driver who insisted the hotel he delivered me to was the one I had asked for, it had a completely different name, and I refused to get out of the car, so he asked the porter who told him where the correct one was, 20 minutes drive in the opposite direction from the office.
LOL....reminds me of a taxi-driver in Saigon - a con artist par excellence but never learnt that he was dealing with someone who was an inveterate taxi user familiar with scams and wheezes across the world and could smell BS a mile-off. After we'd been driving for a few minutes, I saw that he was trying Scam No .1...meter switched off. Reminded him to switch it on.
Get to our destination and proffered a moderately sized note that required a minor amount of change. "Sorry, I have no change". Yeah, right.
I could see countless small denomination notes on his dashboard. Scam No. 2 So we went through our pockets and came up with the exact money. Ha!
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