Another Encounter with a Taxi Driver...

This is what happened to me today...

So, I got a taxi off the street as I was out and about. (Don't worry peoples, it was a real taxi driver, not one of those unmarked cars posing as a taxi driver). I asked the driver to stop somewhere along the way so I could rush into a shop to get something.

While I was in the store, the driver's wife called him and started yelling at him. I got in the car and he was really, really angry saying things like "I provide for you every day and just one day I forgot something and you start shouting at me" etc.

So the driver cuts the phone and starts yelling at me about how good a husband he is and how ungrateful his wife is etc. Not that I really care about his martial stuff. I thought the 'smile and wave' Madagascar-film-not-the-country approach was best here.

So this guy is really vexed. We're going towards home and suddenly he stops the car and tells me to wait. I'm thinking he's going to buy an axe or machete to kill his wife. Instead, he picks up a banana peel from the middle of the road and chucks it in the bin. He comes back into the car, a completely changed and calm man and explains how he once saw a motorcycle go over some garbage in the road, have an accident and break an arm.

Random act of kindness, although I wish he'd been a bit calmer with his wife!