After our bed-ridden experience from one "Irresponsible Cab Driver" in 2015, we encounter yet again another one who was coughing so badly that the taxi swerved as he fought to control the wheels while struggling to suppress his cough with even more sweets and then eventually, giving his cough the all-out blast, bombing the whole cab! We were travelling on a highway, so it would be a distance before we can call him to a halt - by which time, we would have reached the destination.
We were so shocked that none of us thought to ask him to open the windows to let the germs out.
That would have been the regular reaction, except this time, we got distracted trying to make out what he was mumbling under his breath. He was not only sick, he appears demented, and we thought it wiser to try to make out what he was talking to himself, in case he got agitated by us wanting to abort the trip or making any changes.
True enough, just as the taxi reached the end of the highway, he mumbled: "Suicide lah (cough! cough!)"
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| Another poor victim |
By then, we were nearing the end (of the destination; not our end, thankfully). We got out of the taxi in a jiffy.
That's it!
Since there is no law to prevent taxi drivers from working while suffering from cough and flu, we will remember to ask all future taxi drivers if they are suffering from this ailment before we board.
Another few days of being bedridden and the lost productivity is no joke, not to mention the need for another round of antibiotics as we got quite badly infected, coughing till the throat became raw and inflamed.
Spreading of disease by taxi drivers who are obviously sick, yet choose to drive for money without consideration for public health, should be made an offence.
