I got into taxi at Dadar station at 11:30 pm and reached home just before 00:00. The taximeter was showing 13.10. After increase in taxi and auto rickshaw fare rates I couldn’t calculate how much I need to pay for the meter reading 13.10. The taxi driver tried to look in his new rate card but because of darkness couldn’t read it properly so asked me to read the card. After having look at the card I told him its Rs 164 I will have to pay him and I paid the amount. But he got that I am making mistake in reading the card and asked me to read it again. He explained me that I should read regular column and not late night column. Now I read it again and told him the payable amount is Rs 146. He returned me the extra money that I paid to him.
Tell me can this happen anywhere else?
That's Mumbai Spirit. Every common person is responsible for it.
Tell me can this happen anywhere else?
That's Mumbai Spirit. Every common person is responsible for it.
4 comments:
i agree - true spirit of mumbai
- Nikhil
yeah thts true the same happen wid me during my lat visit in first week of august :)
good to know that .... come down to here (in blr) and for sure the taxi/autowala would have asked you +100 (or if you bargain hard +50 extra) along with the night charges, btw, here the night charges start from 10 P.M. itself.
-Alok
Exactly!! May be a good soul who returned you the amount, In Bangalore , Taxi/Auto meters are just for show and not for use. They do quote an amount and you cannot bargain and after 9-10 pm the rates increase three folds and you do not have any other choice other than paying them. Yet again, such few people do exist iin every part of the world.
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