Another quiet day . .
. Still pretty tired . .
So I decided to leave a bit earlier than my colleagues so
arranged for my own car to pick me up from the office and deliver me back to
the hotel. So I wait outside the building at the allocated hour . . and waited
. .and waited. After over 30 minutes I went back inside and called the hotel.
They informed me the driver was there, just waiting around the corner . . WTF?
They always come and pick us up at the same spot outside the building . . like
I’m going to walk around amongst the other hundred or other private car hires
and find him? Doesn’t work that way . . . Anyway, he came on foot and found me.
I reckon he was late big time! Ok, I was ok . . no dramas . . but I got this
sob story all the way home about how little he makes, his wife and children to
feed . . . his ‘little one’ in school . . this guy was in his 50s . . he drives 24 hours on and has 24 hours off .
.. I did not prompt this at all and was not in the mood . . anyway, got to the
hotel ok.
After resting up and doing some work stuff that I cannot do
at the IBM office (Network issues), Jenny and I headed to Commercial Street to
get some more gifts and cool things. I bought more than I intended to, but hey,
that’s ok, I can live with that!
We did well with pricing . . we haggled down big time. As we
were tired, we basically told them we are walking out in 30 seconds . . with or
without the goods and we named our price. The haggling was shortened to under
30 seconds and we mostly always got what we wanted! We had little or no
patience. We were not rude, just did not have the energy to haggle too much! We
knew what was an excellent price and put it on the table. It seemed to work
pretty well!
When we were ready to go we found a Tuk Tuk driver wanting
business and asked for the cost to take us back to the hotel “without any
stops”. He quoted 160 . . I said “no way, we got here for under 80”. He made
some excuses and we started to walk off . . he then said ok. Some girls
standing nearby said “nice work” and smiled . . he he, well yeh, ok . .but
really, I felt a bit bad as we’re only talking about the difference of AU$1.60. So we got the trip for AU$1.60AU instead of AU$3.20 . . .still excellent as
the ride is both exciting, dangerous and everything else !! he he.
Anyway, below are some pics of the surroundings as Jenny and
I made our way around . . .
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