Which Is Worse?
Jan 30th, 2008 by Clare
Sidenote:I will fly back to Kampualand tonight! Yay!
What would you do when you want to go places in Kuala Lumpur but you do not have your own transport? Take the public transport! But which one? We have the train (LRT, Monorail, KTM, Star), bus (Metro, RapidKL) and taxi (Public Cab, Sunlight, Radio Taxi). Most of the time I will take the cab/taxi. They get you from point A to point B in the shortest time possible. But it is expensive, depending on your destination.
Taking a cab in Malaysia can be eventful. You either hate it or love it. They either slaughter you or making an honest living. It was a pretty interesting experience when hailing a cab in KL. I have put some of them in one of my previous posts. I am not going to talk about that now.
We have taxi drivers driving like an Formula One drivers everywhere. We have unhygienic taxi drivers who spit out of his car window every 10 seconds. We have taxi drivers who talk a lot. We have taxi drivers who drive as if the road is not straight. We have taxi drivers who swear at other drivers. We have impatient taxi drivers. We have macam-macam (all types of) taxi drivers in KL.
But which type is worse than those I’ve mentioned? Oh, I just encountered one last night.
Sleepy taxi driver.
Now we have drivers who fell asleep behind the wheel!
We hailed the taxi from Midvalley to go back to Damansara. Not even halfway through, the car slowed down for no reason and the taxi started to move to the middle of two lanes. When Alvin said “Terus, terus!” the guy woke up, got back into the right lane and continued driving.
But his eyes were only a quarter opened like this: -_-
And he was trying very hard to keep his eyes open a little bit. But he was driving like a drunken guy - to the left, to the right, to the middle, slow, fast, braking for no reason. That was scary. You know KL’s traffic condition. It is very very dangerous to sleep-drive!
Then, Alvin decided to talk to him. Thank goodness, his eyes were fully opened 0.0 after that. He said that he had been driving for more than 12 hours that day and was feeling tired. Life is tough. Prices all hike up but not our salary though. Therefore, working hard is another option, for some people.
Don’t sleep and drive!
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in a way i pity these taxi drivers. their earnings still that much but everything goes up. the other day they had this protest/rally at klcc cause they wanted to go against the price hike…. even before they could start at 3pm FRU units were deployed everywhere in the vicinity with their ready-to-fight faces.. damn bloody hell.. and i notice quite a lot of these ppl are not so well to do looking and some are even with children.. i dont understand why the authority has to result into violence.. one thing good about that protest was that ppl of all races were there, something our current ruling government isnt really too happy about. but majority i saw were indians and malays. malaysians are making it clear that they want a change. how about sarawakians ? we have the power to remove pek mo actually, its just that we decide not to or couldnt care less about our future…. :,(
you should have jumped in & take over the wheel. take the taxi for a spin around the block a few times!
Hiak hiak hiak hiak… talk crap with him also nvm, so long as I can keep him awake. Scared the crap outta me when I saw him swinging to the middle lane a couple of times with cars approaching at a fast speed from behind. It is still amazing how he can drive with his eyes barely open! Amazing, yet scared the crap outta me. LOL.
U come back already huh?! Why you dun hit that fella head? Happy CNY!
Back liao! Yay!