SERVICE

Well! When I am a bit 'richer', I will have the luxury to take taxi around. And I must say from my past experience, there are all sort of taxi drivers. Some are chatty, some are reserved, some are over-chatty, some are wierd, some are philosphical, some are 'chimney'(smoker-smell of cigrarettes), some are sleepy(these are those tat you got to watch out of). Well! Basically you get all kinds of drivers. On the hold, most of them are not too bad.
However, there are just a few things I dun appreciate about taxi drivers. The inconsiderate kind. One of which will be the 'horners'. They horn non stop on the road in the hope of catching a passenger's attention. Irritating. Another kind is those who will slow down on the road to catch your attention while you attempt to cross the empty street. And because the taxi slow down, it hinder the crossing of the road and before you know it, the road is congested with cars. GREAT! And I had 2 encounters of such inconsiderate drivers in 2 straight days. First was on a friday nite after cell. So 2 groups of us wanted to take taxi. After a long wait, my group decided to just flag a taxi for the other group and then we take MRT home. So the taxi stopped and we signalled to the other group to take the taxi. In the 5 seconds, the driver got impatient, stared away and drove off. I nearly took out my MILAN and shot at him. Haha! But I must say God is good because if the taxi had waited, my group would have taken MRT home. And guess what? 2 taxis came along. Muahahaha!
Then the next day was supposed to go Eastpoint Sakura for meeting cum lunch. Then was at the road waiting to cross when an occupied taxi came to a halt right in front of me. Heard that! RITE IN FRONT OF ME. The passenger had wanted to alight and so the driver tot tat I would happen to be waiting for him to pick me up. Oh GREAT! Well! Had enuff of taxi driver. Singapore wants to be a country of excellent service. Far from reaching that goal. Maybe in the presence of foreigners they put on a far from poor service but guess what, there's no pride in their job. I am not just talking about taxi drivers. I am talking about Singapore on a whole. The retail section. Come on! Singaporeans! Buck up! Take pride in your job. Doesn't matter if you are just a salesgirl or a waiter. The little things you do firstly show how much you take pride in your servicing job and also it will reflect good on your personality.