Drive my dad, 1.3 liter Proton Saga out to do hitch to cover cost on my way to attend a course.
There comes a rider, sat in the car and didn’t seem to be happy with it, our conversation goes like this:
Me: Good Morning, heading to Jurong East ya?
Rider: Good Morning, how old is your car. Me: 9 years old ( lt, a 2009 Jan Proton Saga)
Rider: So old, cramped, small and uncomfortable.
Me: (Getting angry but retained my cool): Oh I am sorry about that, how do I make your ride more comfortable? Rider: In future if your car is old, underpowered, small, cramped and uncomfortable, please do not hitch, (then she take out a notebook and wrote “Proton Saga,
Me: Oh ok sorry about that and we kept quiet till Jurong East. Along the way she kept on asking me about cars etc, so when we came across a Toyota Camry she said “This is the type of car that passengers want to ride on whether or not is hitch or Private Hire, if you can’t afford to rent or buy such a car, then don’t do Private Hire or carpool, you know how stuffy such small cars are?
She then showed me the book that she blacklisted all the “small and uncomfortable cars” while at a traffic lights, in her list were basically all the 1.0 -1.6 litres cars like Hyundai Getz, Perodua Kenari, Mitsubishi Colt etc.
In my mind I thought to myself, if my family is so wealthy, then I won’t even bother doing hitch already, I am just a random guy living in an old freaking cheap 4 room flat in Woodlands, how much is this rider paying for my ride? Not like she is paying $130 for a ride also, I mean it really hurts me to use a certain word but I wonder if really hitch drivers nowadays are using good and luxury cars? Anyone encounter such riders before?