How do I break up with my tuk tuk driver?
Have you considered Exnet and other taxi ordering apps? You can ditch your driver by upgrading to taxi. When he comes around show him the awesome app and tell him how stupid you feel having given him the same money that now gets you an airconditioned ride with no bullshit. Taxi drivers even have change. Can he break a $5? Didn't think so, but he can give you a discount on the next ride. Wink!
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Oh come on, she's probably 30 cm taller and twice his weight. He's the one that should worry in a normal context.vlad wrote:Nothing unusual about her concerns as a single white female here.
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getting a taxi to and from work seems a little snooty to me. It's not like I'm an executive. I like tuk tuks.
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Some of my tuk tuk friends sometime got laid from their regular customers aka the NGOers and TEFLers. Not a bad a gig.
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Do you still have your rowing machine?
Maybe you can start rowing to work.
Maybe you can start rowing to work.
Violet, actually this is a good time for a breakup with Khmer New year coming. You will probably not use him for the week starting on the 13th, or at least you will have a good excuse not to use him. Tell him you are thinking about getting a motorbike, or getting a bicycle, and starting the 13th you will stop using his services and you are very sorry about that, but whenever you meet a foreigner looking for a reliable tuk tuk you will recommend him. That addition will smoothen things up a bit.
For the rest, ignore the reasoning of the members here and go with your instinct. When it comes to relationships between people instinct is worth more than gold I think.
For the rest, ignore the reasoning of the members here and go with your instinct. When it comes to relationships between people instinct is worth more than gold I think.
Yeah, the negatives are going to be the same with basically any tuk tuk.violet wrote: This actually made me laugh. It is true to a large extent, however Vladimir is right, I am uncomfortable now.
It is a little like being the frog in the slowly heating water, except I have become aware.
He is reliable (sometimes forgets but so do I). He is friendly. I have met his two children and his wife.
I have also seen him drunk on Chinese New Year and saw the change in him.
I see how, because he has good English, (or maybe some reason I don't know), he appears to be top honcho in the neighbourhood. He orders other tuk tuk drivers around.
I would like to use tuk tuk drivers who don't have good English rather than one who is at such an advantage.
He has a more expensive smartphone than I do. He is doing OK.
However, I don't want this anymore. He is 'infiltrating' his way in slowly and my senses have been triggered.
I want to get out now before I am put in uncomfortable situations.
We each have different thresholds.
Gmjs makes a very valid point though....it is 'me' ...whether it is my insecurities or my insight/hunch is unknown.
I took notice as well when I first arrived, the fact that the locals were all up in my business. Mostly I disliked the wash women staring and talking when I was smoking and having a beer on my balcony. You come to find it's the norm and don't let it bother you. But the not letting it bother is not easy for white ladies.
Maybe the driver knows that already. You stop using him due to the insecurities and he writes it off. "Fuck it, white women problems. "
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With normal people you'd be right. But as far as violet is concerned even Gavinmac sounds more sociable and adept at relationships with the opposite sex. This tuk tuk guy might be her only chance at a meaningful, lasting relationship, even if he's more interested in her purse than her mind or, God forbids, her body.kachang wrote:When it comes to relationships between people instinct is worth more than gold I think.
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Studies show that genetically tuktuk drivers are very closely related to politicians, Khmer Rouge soldiers and chimpanzees. In other words narcissism and lying is in their DNA. So when in Rome and all that...
Violet,
Maybe you could start a moto version of Uber in Phnom Penh with only barang riders?
Violet,
Maybe you could start a moto version of Uber in Phnom Penh with only barang riders?
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That could be very riggerous, but at least violet would get some stroking done. Then again, I've heard she has a thing for cox.finy wrote:Do you still have your rowing machine?
Maybe you can start rowing to work.
I knew a guy who used to row to work with his mates...crew story.
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Or you could just decline to answer.gavinmac wrote:If the guy is just too chatty and inquisitive, maybe just ignore the questions, pretend you can't hear, pretend to be on the phone, wear earbuds, etc.
"I'm too shy to say," is a polite and acceptable response.
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There's also a metered tuk tuk company, with the small Indian vehicles, that charges half the rate of standard tuk-tuks.
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Fuck him then tell all the other drivers he has a chilli dick.
Now, there's an idea! - offer him sex and he'll run a mile, problem sorted.RobW wrote:Fuck him then tell all the other drivers he has a chilli dick.
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