National disgrace

I happened to be at KLCC on the past Saturday morning to do photo-shoot for RunNat 2010. As we were standing outside the grand entrance of the MPO, I stunned upon a Caucasian couple  trying to get a taxi to a nearby destination.

It seems that the first taxi that being flagged down didn’t want to use his meter and just quoted an upfront fare to the couple. Feeling that the taxi driver just wanted to take advantage of them, the couple refused to take that taxi and try their luck on the next.

By now, there’re a few taxis queuing up behind. The couple told the next taxi where they’re going and again, the other taxi driver refused to use his meter and quoted them an upfront price.

I was feeling so embarrass yet furious for the way our taxi driver behave. I’ve been to the big cities of our neighbouring countries such as Singapore and Bangkok, the taxi drivers in these 2 countries adhere to the taxi etiquette and never seems to reject their customers or not charging by meter. KL being one of the leading cities among South East Asia, yet our taxi drivers’ behaviour is not any difference from those of third world nations. Though this might seems like a micro problem to some, I truly saddened by such  behaviour as it tarnished the image of KL as a world class city.