got another freaky taxi driver yesterday.

i know i know. i seem to get em all eh? if you think that that's weird, how do you think i feel? i'm considering devoting this whole blog to the kooky, zany and just plain crazy drivers of singapore who seems to have a fetish for far out idiosyncrasies.

now lets get down to it...

this one was sleepy.

now hold on a minute. before you go on ranting that this guy was just sleepy let me get into the details.

this guy had a tendency to crack his neck, and i'm not talking about the way people usually crack their necks. he had his hands on the wheel and so obviously he couldnt use them to crack his neck. so what he did was forcibly jerk his head right to left. he used so much force that i was afraid that he'd just break his own neck and fall dead on the steering wheel leaving me there in the back seat in total shock, not knowing what to do as the cab just continued on the busy expressway with a dead guy in the front, face flat on the steering wheel. plus he did it with such frequency that the possibility of the weid-ass scenario actually happening increased exponentially with every crack.

also, when i said sleepy, i'm not talking about watching-a-bad-movie sleepy or i-am-so-bored sleepy. this was narcolepsy sleepy. how did i know? he shook himself awake and rubbed his eyes every minute or two. he drove so very lazily as if he were contemplating if he should just stop in the middle of the busy road and catch some zs.

if that wasnt enough, he actually nodded off while he was driving on the expressway with me in the goddamn cab.

hello! if that doesnt fall under the freaky category, i dont know what does.

he also missed my exit and had to take the next one, which seemed like miles away, so that he could turn back.

admist the cracking of the head, the rubbing of the eyes, the very lazy driving, the nodding off while on the job (and if you're a cab driver you just dont do that) and my over-active imagination, i surreptitiously put my seatbealts on, something i dont normally do because i find it rather irritating.

this was far worse than the adulterous engineer- cum- cab-driver i had some time ago.
why do i always get the freaks?