Here's a contrasting situation that you come across every once in a while. A radio cab whose driver tells me at 5 p.m. that he could not have lunch since morning on account of back-to-back trips. The chap also keeps talking nicely to me and my son throughout the trip on the way -making us feel good about him.
THEN he tells me that his tripmeter was not working and that he's reset tripmeter A to zero (this was at star itself) and I could pay by seeing the fare chart. At the end of the trip (on a route familiar to me) he switches the tripmeter to tripmeter B which shows a reading of 32 km instead of around 23-24 expected(my wife Shalu remembered seeing a reading of around 23 half a minute before the trip end). I asked him to show me Tripmeter A which actually showed 24.2 and he said that maybe it was the correct one. Then he gave me a rate chart which showed around 25% excess fare than calculation. I being a mathomaniac that I am, told him it was not correct and before I could run through the entire chart he produced another saying that he accidently showed me the night fare chart!
Now here I was, on one hand predetermined to tip him decently while the current situation demanding to give a piece of my mind. But somehow I could not flare up and did offer him a chhotu tip. But I kept on wondering if it was his usual manner wereby he'd be cheating many a custoomers who are not as vigilant as me/Shalu and woud it be a good idea to report the same to cab company.
What say you?!?!?
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