Me: Sodeco Square, please.
Taxi driver: Sodeco?
Me: Yes.
(We drive.)
(Later...)
Taxi driver: Muthaf? (Museum?)
Me: No, Sodeco Square.
Taxi driver: Sodeco?
Me: Yes, Sodeco.
Taxi driver: Wayn fi Sodeco? (Where in Sodeco?)
Me: Just Sodeco. Binayat fi Sodeco. (A building on Sodeco.)
Taxi driver: Muthaf? Muthaf watani? (National Museum?)
Me: No, Sodeco.
Taxi driver (after we are almost at the museum): Muthaf.
Me: Not muthaf, Sodeco.
(Then he tells me I have to walk back the way we just came or get another taxi. It was a ten minute walk. By some miracle, I was not late to my meeting. If he was going to make me walk, he could have just dropped me off at the corner instead of driving a ten minute walk away from my destination. Sodeco Square is a well-known area in Beirut. I got out without paying. For all the times I've been ripped off by cab drivers here, why should I pay when I he made me walk to my destination?)
Taxi driver: Sodeco?
Me: Yes.
(We drive.)
(Later...)
Taxi driver: Muthaf? (Museum?)
Me: No, Sodeco Square.
Taxi driver: Sodeco?
Me: Yes, Sodeco.
Taxi driver: Wayn fi Sodeco? (Where in Sodeco?)
Me: Just Sodeco. Binayat fi Sodeco. (A building on Sodeco.)
Taxi driver: Muthaf? Muthaf watani? (National Museum?)
Me: No, Sodeco.
Taxi driver (after we are almost at the museum): Muthaf.
Me: Not muthaf, Sodeco.
(Then he tells me I have to walk back the way we just came or get another taxi. It was a ten minute walk. By some miracle, I was not late to my meeting. If he was going to make me walk, he could have just dropped me off at the corner instead of driving a ten minute walk away from my destination. Sodeco Square is a well-known area in Beirut. I got out without paying. For all the times I've been ripped off by cab drivers here, why should I pay when I he made me walk to my destination?)
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