Would you pay ?

[sidjameson]

6 hours ago, petermik said:

This is another troll from someone who reported he was having a beer a couple of weeks back in the Killkenny bar which has been closed for over 6 months....ignore gents

Do you have a link to that infamous thread by chance ????

[sirineou]

7 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Do you pay the 10 baht and jump out ?

No

 

[Pattaya57]

54 minutes ago, sidjameson said:

Do you have a link to that infamous thread by chance ????

Here it is, he was drinking in Kilkenny 2 weeks ago where it was packed, standing room only even though it's been closed for 6 months lol

 

Edited August 11, 2023 by Pattaya57

[Ralf001]

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Isn't the B10 fare on the B10 baht bus B10 regardless of the length of your journey?

Incredible that its been 10b since atleast 2005 that I know off.

[Olmate]

1 hour ago, NextG said:

We are saying it was BS… 

'We' are wrong then! or maybe just you, or him! 

[Pattaya57]

21 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

I would never take one or get in an empty one......i have my own motorbike to avoid these things

Why, 30 cents to go from Jomtien all the way to Terminal 21 has to be one of the cheapest transports in the World. Just don't get in a parked one, you could be waiting ages for them to fill it up

 

Edited August 11, 2023 by Pattaya57

[NextG]

45 minutes ago, Olmate said:

'We' are wrong then! or maybe just you, or him! 

Not wrong… they have specific routes they are supposed to take as a bus. If they divert elsewhere with a bus passenger on, you can report them. They won’t make trouble if they are already in the wrong. So I simply don’t believe you that he asked you to get off AND to pay. 

[pixelaoffy]

another example of Pattaya s*** show

[save the frogs]

22 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Do you pay the 10 baht and jump out ?

watch out if you go to phuket and the taxi driver tries sth.

you seem like the type of guy who will get into a confrontation if you're making a big deal out 10 baht. 

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

watch out if you go to phuket and the taxi driver tries sth.

you seem like the type of guy who will get into a confrontation if you're making a big deal out 10 baht. 

In Phuket you would be arguing over 200 baht I expect. 

[bignok]

23 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Now you hail a baht bus going to Jomtien, you are the only one in it.

 

Just after  that overhead bridge up the hill  going ( don't know the name) but has small soccer sports court under it.

 

The bus stops for 6 indian guys , they talk to him and jump in the back.

 

He jumps out and approaches you as you sit in the back and  says they are going in a different direction and tells you to pay 10b for that short ride, and can catch another one.

 

Do you pay the 10 baht and jump out ?

Of course I do. Its 10 baht. Only a loser would argue over 10 baht.

[brewsterbudgen]

56 minutes ago, bignok said:

Of course I do. Its 10 baht. Only a loser would argue over 10 baht.

The OP didn't say there was an argument.  The driver was trying it on, and would happily have continued with his new passengers without the 10 baht.

[Grusa]

19 hours ago, champers said:

This scenario is only playing out in the over-vivid imagination of the OP. Doesn't happen in real life.

Actually it does.

A few years ago, SWMBO and I were returning by bus from Ekkamai, with luggage. We negotiated a ride home from the Nua bus station  to the darkside, 100baht, which I thought was pretty fair.  

The driver did not lrave immediately, he waited until he had a full load, and then proceeded to Jomtien Beach Road via the hill, dropping people off at various points on the way. When we were the only passengers left, he turned up Soi Wat Boon, and stopped on a piece of waste ground (it was not so built up in those days). He climbed out and demanded another 200baht to take us to our home in Nongkabok. This after the best part of an hour farting about in Jomtien! 

We got out and walked with our cases to the nearest bar, after informing him I only wanted a ride, not to buy his f.....g taxi, and would pay him nothing unless he fulfilled the contract. Probably fortunately he did not speak or understand enough English that it mattered!

I took a motorbike taxi home, for 100baht, and went back with the car to collect SWMBO etc.

With a foul temper!

 

Edited August 12, 2023 by Grusa

[The Theory]

On 8/11/2023 at 8:40 AM, georgegeorgia said:

Do you pay the 10 baht and jump out ?

speechless,

Not responsible for anything,

money talks only. 

unfortunately there are too many of this type ????

Edited August 12, 2023 by The Theory

[bignok]

52 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

The OP didn't say there was an argument.  The driver was trying it on, and would happily have continued with his new passengers without the 10 baht.

10 baht who cares. 

[itsallmine68]

Your Indian friends can pay

 

[brianthainess]

  PO me with your address i'll send you 20b 

[brewsterbudgen]

2 hours ago, bignok said:

10 baht who cares. 

Indeed, but I doubt the bus driver does either.  He was just seeing if he had a gullible passenger!

[Wuvu2]

On 8/11/2023 at 9:51 AM, petermik said:

This is another troll from someone who reported he was having a beer a couple of weeks back in the Killkenny bar which has been closed for over 6 months....ignore gents

Ignore? That's very unlike us "gents".  ROAST him with snark is more like it ???? 

[jacko45k]

36 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

  PO me with your address i'll send you 20b 

Message sent, 200 times.....

[cjinchiangrai]

Not a chance. Refused service for the benefit of the driver is on him. Plus, a baht bus driver gets paid on delivery, not pickup.

[georgegeorgia]

12 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Not a chance. Refused service for the benefit of the driver is on him. Plus, a baht bus driver gets paid on delivery, not pickup.

What about those who say ...but....but ...it's only 10 baht .....just pay it ....just pay it mate 

[Adumbration]

On 8/11/2023 at 9:51 AM, petermik said:

This is another troll from someone who reported he was having a beer a couple of weeks back in the Killkenny bar which has been closed for over 6 months....ignore gents

He is a fictional poster.  Most of the new topics on this forum are now created by bots.  They have to do this because there is just a tiny handful of real members remaining on this forum.

[Grusa]

6 minutes ago, Adumbration said:

He is a fictional poster.  Most of the new topics on this forum are now created by bots.  They have to do this because there is just a tiny handful of real members remaining on this forum.

????How dare you! Mine are created by rodents, not robots!????

[scorecard]

On 8/11/2023 at 9:21 AM, blackshadow said:

dont pay jump out 

then...

[4MyEgo]

On 8/11/2023 at 11:40 AM, georgegeorgia said:

Do you pay the 10 baht and jump out ?

OMG, say no more 

[Sandboxer]

Whenever some ahole rips me off (or tries to) here, I just try to remember that my grandfathers were driving a car while theirs were still dreaming about one day owning a donkey.

 

Always makes me giggle and immediately forget the issue at hand.

Edited just now by Sandboxer

Edited August 12, 2023 by Sandboxer

[XGM]

If it feels offensive, I'd either present a very perplexed "I don't understand" face or continuously ask, in the utmost polite manner, different versions of "but why". Using a very calm, innocent and respectable manner disarms them.

With 6 guys in, the last thing the driver wants to do is to waste time.

 

There's a limit though to the amount of time I'm willing to engage in that though so if I'm in a hurry and another songteo showed up then the driver'd get his 10 baht and I'd be on my way.

[Olmate]

2 hours ago, Sandboxer said:

Whenever some ahole rips me off (or tries to) here, I just try to remember that my grandfathers were driving a car while theirs were still dreaming about one day owning a donkey.

 

Always makes me giggle and immediately forget the issue at hand.

Edited just now by Sandboxer

And here you are using 10baht public buses.!! ????

[jacko45k]

4 hours ago, Adumbration said:

They have to do this because there is just a tiny handful of real members remaining on this forum.

And more power to us real members!