karwa driver toxic fumes

sniiiifffff..........

if you smeeeelllll what the cabbie is cooking??

(raised eyebrow!)

you u gotta thank ur lucky stars coz i betcha werent here when the cabbies of old were around..... smell wat smell ... (numb nose)...guess i have grown immune to it.... :-p

not just that, one afternoon, this stinker even placed his left foot on the dashboard, probably airing his smelly feet with the AC Vent,

i am a regular karwa passenger, and i really agree that lately ive been encountering rude, stinky, arrogant dim wits...

tsk tsk, karwa getting worse. and 80 percent do not use meters, if they do, they cheat you,......

sorry,cant afford to buy any car even a second hand,Ana Miskeen lol! :)

hahahahahahaha... very funny... my advise for you my friend... buy your own car mate..pple come here and say ... oh am staying just two years and then il leave so i do not need a car.. trust me you do.... for a lot of reasons.. transport here is not customer friendly... especially ladies friendly.... here in qatar ,,, hygiene is lacking for a lot of people....i promise you, thats just the start,,, you will experience it a lot here and there .. not just in the taxi... try standing in line at the hospital, govt offices, most public places etc.....

hahahahahahaha... very funny... my advise for you my friend... buy your own car mate..pple come here and say ... oh am staying just two years and then il leave so i do not need a car.. trust me you do.... for a lot of reasons.. transport here is not customer friendly... especially ladies friendly.... here in qatar ,,, hygiene is lacking for a lot of people....i promise you, thats just the start,,, you will experience it a lot here and there .. not just in the taxi... try standing in line at the hospital, govt offices, most public places etc.....

hahahahahahaha... very funny... my advise for you my friend... buy your own car mate..pple come here and say ... oh am staying just two years and then il leave so i do not need a car.. trust me you do.... for a lot of reasons.. transport here is not customer friendly... especially ladies friendly.... here in qatar ,,, hygiene is lacking for a lot of people....i promise you, thats just the start,,, you will experience it a lot here and there .. not just in the taxi... try standing in line at the hospital, govt offices, most public places etc.....

hygiene is very important, it will reflect in ur personality even u are handsome or look pretty and u have a stinky smell, thats soooooo Turned Off!!!!

(am just wondering why some people didnt know what they really smell or are they just pretending that they dont have disgusting smell)

Probably, he literally farted :p just open the window a bit for a good circulation of the air :D

its not just because they're not taking a shower, its what they eat that causes them to smell too, just be patient, as you will encounter more, soon you'll get immune and you will learn how to ignore it and learn how to hold your breath for a long time :p lol

no big deal :)

some drivers chew tobacco. this thing smells so bad. Also I have seen some drivers use nice fragrance and the cab is very clean.

yesterday I had been to a beauty parlor in Matar qadeem road and there it was a girl who was getting his ultra rough and curly hairs straight.The beautician was facing too much of problems becoz that girls didnt washed her hairs for a very very long time and no combing either...I dont know even after getting so many facilities in life people dont care about taking proper head to toe wash...yuccccccccck....

thanks Mr M for the advice...  :)

Ruby the next time a karwa driver asks for your number,just tell him you will give his car's plate number to the police.That's it.

Stink

You can not get a good reply from the hotline operator especially those on night duty because they themselves, had this stinking smell probably.The management as well doesn' care .. birds of the same feathers flock together.Unfortunately no other taxi company is available 

yes,this is happening since the Karwa starts operating, what i do is i just ask the driver to open the window.

and some of them will ask your number...WTH!!!!

 LOL! ur post really made me laugh!i guess ur new in Qatar. u know what? u should thank the driver coz he helped u get prepared as u'll encounter more of his kind! he was trying to make u immune with that smell so next time it would be easier for u to deal with it!;)...having the "Right to Fresh Air" has been an issue in this place so ur not alone having such experience;)

I thought it is O and I instead of 0 and 1, where O stands for outside Doha and 'I' stands for indside Doha. So even if it is night hours, if you are within Doha, the meter should start with an 'I'. 'O' tarrif is more than 'I', and is valid if you are going or coming from Dukhan for example.

Don't mean to be judgemental but surely cleanliness is not to be neglected by any sane able bodied humanbeing be they rich or poor, as long as they have access to running water! Nobody can expect everyone to smell lush and perfumed 24/7 but one needs to simply stay clean so as not to offend anyone. Though of course with regards to the cabbie,God knows, perhaps he had a hard day(tire puncture and stuck under the blazing sun or something) and couldn't reach a shower in time. Just hope it never happens again!

..they are now becoming arrogant too. and if you complain them to karwa hotline, you will never get any good answer from the operator.

Now that you know..next time bring air freshner with you and spray some inside the cab or have a Vicks inhaler handy.

plus you have to keep any eye for the fare shown on the meter ,which should be 1 during the day and 0 during the nightMost of Karwa drivers use the fare 0 during the day to get more money of ya (o is more expensive than 1 for the same distance crossed)this actually happened to me twice this week,and when i told them about the fare they said "oh sorry sir, it was a mistake "robbers.