Many pitfalls mentioned here when under the influence. This one I sorely remember.
Tumbling out of a bar in the Bukit Timah road in the early hrs. Hail some beaten up Merc taxi and in we get, with me in the front asking. ''How much to Tengah?'' ''$20 John'', came the reply. '' 'We're not paying that much, right chaps all out'' I cry.
Out I leap from the taxi only to see it speed off with my three mates! The road now looks deserted so I start walking, eventually a taxi stops ''you want taxi John?''. In I get, rather thankfully, I'm on duty in three hours time. Arrive at Tengah. ''How much?'' ''$30 please.'' I quietly pay up!
At work when the chaps ask how I got back I mumble something about cadging a lift
Forking out $30 instead of 5...hurt!