New DA uploads and a recent cab incident
August 6, 2008 
1:35 AM
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Most of you are surely familiar with those shots as they were from my brother’s birthday celebration that I just posted recently.
Looking at all those food is making me hungry!I saw a link in my Plurk tonight about a recent cab incident. Some parts of that post is in Filipino, so for those who can’t understand the language, here’s a rough and short summary about the incident — A woman was on her way to meet her friend. She hails a cab and as she sits down, the driver asks her to move to the left because the right wheel of the car was near flat. Some men suddenly tried to open the doors. The woman thought they didn’t see her. She let out a scream when she saw the driver was opening the doors for them. The hold-up went on for hours. At one time, she was asked to move her hands down as she was clasping them. She apologized. She said she was only praying. The driver said, “Don’t be afraid, miss. We’re nice and won’t do any harm to you as long as you cooperate.”
So hold-upping is nice. >_> My Mom’s college friend and her daughter also experienced such. They were afraid to ride a cab again after that. I rarely ride cabs anymore not only because I’m afraid of such but I get motion-sickness when I ride one. The smell also gets me dizzy.
Based on Dré’s plurk, I made a list of trustworthy cab companies:
Avis
Basic
R&E
Wallis
Hmm, only 3? Got some to add to the list anyone?
2008-0807 UPDATE: Added Wallis to the cabs list.
Thanks, Carol!
When riding cabs, I have a habit of choosing those green cabs (R&E) not only because I can complain afterwards but because they don’t talk much. haha
Dapat talaga people get into the habit of checking the plate numbers and texting it to someone they know. I always do that just in case something like this happens. All the info in the car is at the side of the windows naman. Pati name nang operator.
Constant vigilance na lang siguro…and omg that girl is a walking computer station. Lahat ata dala. ano ba!