The Taxiwala

We were finally out of Airport from the immigration counter, a short delay of around 120 mins. we went to the conveyer belt to collect our luggages and our bags were already out of belt.

collecting the bags,walking few steps we looked around and found a middle-aged fair guy holding our company's placard.yeah he is the person ,the taxi wala who came to pick us. I can see the signs of frustration in his face, after all he has been waiting for more than 3 hours. Its natural.

One of my colleagues tried to explain what made us late, but in vain. He never understands anything other than Russian; a genuine agmark Russian. so from here on its the sign language with which we communicated. we followed him and on the way we need to get our currencies exchanged we showed the counter to the taxi guy and said we will be back in 5 mins, yeah in sign language, seems he was very much irritated and grumbled someting low. But Never mind he has been there for more than 3 hours. we exchanged and finally followed him to the car in the parking area.

It was freezing cold outside ,the temperature display read zero degrees, we reached the car. alas!! here comes another problem we are four with huge baggages and we cant fit into the car. Taxi guy understood the problem and he called someone and with a struggle made us understand that another taxi is coming, we tried to get the time-frame but again in vain. 'Leave it' what more we can do.

First five minutes of waiting was an enjoyment and we were enjoying the weather and then started the problem we started feeling cold our ears started paining and it was already 20 minutes in freezing cold meanwhile we explained the taxi driver that we are feeling very cold and we will wait inside the airpot building. its after a long struggle we made him understtand that, but the only word he told is "Ni-eath" which meant "No". we din't understand why the hell he was not allowing us to wait inside.

we were waiting in the parking lot in the freezing cold for more than 40 mins and came another taxi to pick us. of this 4o mins we tried to talk to the driver as much as be can and atmost got the same words from his mouth again. he never smiled nor spoke back to us .Again to make the driver understand whom to take where took us some 4 or 5 calls to our manager.

This first experience made me understand that russians are very much abstained from English, which i never saw in other countries.