RECENTLY, there have been a number of letters in these columns, about the behaviour of taxi drivers.
I would like to write about the behaviour of a particular taxi passenger. I live in Bamboo Grove, on Kennedy Road. There is a lift from that building to road level and on Friday morning, I was in that lift and as the doors were closing I saw a man running for the lift.
Naturally, I pressed the ''open door'' button of the lift and let him in. Outside Bamboo Grove there is a taxi rank. Usually when you let someone in to the lift in the building that person assumes you take priority in the taxi queue, as was it not for your kindness they would still be waiting for the lift.
The man (I cannot use the term ''gentleman'') I let into the lift stood in front of me in the queue. When a taxi came he jumped into it. I opened the door and said he was very rude and I had assumed that as I had held the lift for him that taxi would be mine.
He agreed he was rude but drove off.
That man was very rude; but he was typical of many taxi users I have encountered in Hong Kong.