With the skyrocketing prices of gasoline and diesel, one can't help but be emphatic with the plight of taxi and jeepney drivers trying who're very much affected with even just a P0.50 increase per liter of that precious fuel.
On my way to Gazebo Royale in Visayas Avenue from Munoz around 10am, we boarded a JR and Mary taxi with plate number PVR894. It was a leisurely drive for just a few minutes.
Upon reaching our destination, the driver immediately turned off the taxi meter and pretended not to give me my change for a hundred peso I gave him. When I asked for my change, he replied that the meter read P102.50 not knowing I saw that it was only P72.50.
Restating it was P102.50 and also said he shouldn't have reset the meter, I countered that P100 can get me as far as Ortigas from Munoz and that we were regular taxi riders. In fact, I can extimate the meter reading even with my eyes closed. He gave me a twenty peso change hesitantly after that.
He's not a member of the batingting brigade, may of whom i also encountered in the past, but i think he judged me wrongly as a boy who'd fall for his cheap trick.
There's a sucker born every minute but I'm definitely not one of them!
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