hollaback_
Monday, May 01, 2006
i swear i'm going to get a car (or at least a driving licence) as soon as i can get one. taxi drivers could kill. literally. last night i was with a half deaf lunatic who reversed about half a road's length, and overshot a stop line at the traffic light only to reverse back behind it. he also intentionally took a fucking long route to get home when PIE would have been much faster, after getting lost in a labyrinth of carpark mazes in bishan. he also swerved suddenly on the road when he missed the entrance of my condominium when i shrieked "here!" and almost rammed down the wrong barricade because he "couldn't see the
taxi word". this made me very annoyed considering it was after midnight, on a sunday. which means a hell lot of surcharge. not surprisingly, it cost even more than my usual taxi fares to camp. which says alot.
it's also the first time i was outright rude to a taxi driver. normally i'm very polite to them. this is the service industry, after all. and what goes around comes around. but for this once, no "please"s and "thank you"s came from my mouth.
last night was also the first time i got a lift from a friend. i feel so adult. ian's car was nothing flashy, but it was a good feeling nonetheless. i feel like i've moved on to something bigger in life. some added touch of maturity. this will continue when i can vote, and when i can watch R rated movies. but as for now, i enjoy being a manboy, in the interim age when i'm not a teenager, but not quite an adult yet. (oh god, how britney spears.)
back to the topic of driving. public road driving this week. it's so ironic that i'll be driving a 22 ton pile of metallic junk before a real car. but then, it should be easier when it comes to the car, right? i want a flashy car. it won't be just the chicks loving me.
mike just took up your time at
5:48 pm
th time!