“I have to admit I felt a little bad because I spent a lot of time trying to track the passenger down and even spent more than an hour waiting at our office for him to come and collect the money. But I would have returned the money with or without the reward, so it doesn’t matter.”
The incident happened a few days ago. Ali’s cab was hailed by the passenger, a Saudi Arabian national, to go from Al Ghusais to Gold souq. After leaving him at the destination, Ali took another passenger. Along the way, he noticed the bag, close to the door.
After doing a few rounds of the area searching for the passenger without luck, Ali took the bag to his office. “The bag contained Dh36,000, the man’s passport and some other documents.” After he was informed, the passenger came to the office an hour later and collected his belongings. “He told me thank you and handed me Dh10,” said Ali, with a smile.
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If you've ever been to Dubai, Qatar, Saudi et al (I grew up there) you'll know that The Workers (taxi drivers, waiters, builders etc) are pretty much invisible to the nationals. this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
Should have told him to keep the reward...he may need it. In the US he'd be referred to as a 'tight wad.'
Ah well. Lesson learned. What you do is cream your reward of first.
"What do you mean 36 grand? I only found 35 grand in my taxi."
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