Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The smallest difference cost me $40


So Joe is heading to his families place to see them one last time before he goes home. So I decided to go to SuJiGu where my aunt's friend lives. My aunt told me to go to Ori (Sounds like OREE) station. Unfortunately what I heard was Odio (Sounds like ODEEO) station, so guess what the chances are that there was a station called Odio (apparently fucking amazing) When I got off Odio station I phoned my aunt on the payphone and she informed me that the apartment is only 5 minutes away. However, when I was looking outside there were no tall buildings in site and in fact it was really boonie looking. So I went into a cab and asked him to drive me to SuJiGo, Duck San Apartments. Then I thought I heard the taxi cab driver say 4000W, ($4) which I was pissed off about because its a total ripp off for a 5 minute cab ride. I didn't want to argue with him so I told him it would be ok. All of a sudden he goes onto the highway and starts heading for another city. I was so confused on what was happening that I asked countless time, "do you know where you are going". Finally after a 45 minute cab ride and whole shit load of confusion, I figured out what went wrong and that my ass was going to be paying for a monster cab ride. It turns out he said 40,000W ($40). Long story short I learned a valuable lesson today sounding similar and actually being similar are 2 different things.



It goes to show you, if Joe ain't around things are getting get tougher.


 

1 comment:

SP said...

Poor Youn! It's pretty confusing, I don't think I could have gotten around with my buddy. BUT I know you can do it without Joe. You're a big boy now. ^_^