It was past 3am and Mavis had booked a taxi through Uber to get back to her accommodation from the club. What was supposed to be a short 15-minute ride took over an hour and made the Singaporean think she was getting kidnapped. TikTok user Mavissyn shared about her nerve-wracking journey in a video uploaded Friday (June 30): 'After I...
It was past 3am and Mavis had booked a taxi through Uber to get back to her accommodation from the club.
They got on their way, but Mavis claimed that the driver cancelled the Uber trip after they passed the first traffic light. "I was like, 'Okay, I don't doubt him, because he's the local here and probably knows a shorter way to this [guest house]'," she justified. As the journey continued, Mavis recalled that she searched for the number of the police hotline in South Korea. She was contemplating asking the driver where he was going, but didn't want to "disturb him" as he was driving and she couldn't speak Korean to communicate with him anyway.She was even wondering if she had put in the wrong address to her guest house, as she had to use Korean characters to input her destination on Uber.
Though Mavis safely got to her destination in the end, the ride cost her 30,000 won instead of the estimated eight to nine thousand won.Netizens were unconvinced by Mavis' story in the comments.Another read: "This wouldn't have happened if you would just open your mouth and ask." "I've [encountered] drivers who intentionally want to increase the cab fare by driving a longer distance, so I thought he was doing that at first," she said.She claimed that she didn't confront the man about it as she felt that the most important thing was reaching her destination.
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