">My Big World Of Crap

Fuck, I’m so stupid! Flew to Sydney tonight, caught a cab to my hotel, paid the fare, got out and then about a minute later, “shit, where’s my wallet?”. I’d left it on the seat when I got my credit card out to pay the bill, and forgotten it when I got out, distracted obviously by the concierge and my travelling companion.

Anyway, the concierge rang the cab company, gave them the cab number, time, location etc, and I described my wallet and gave the operator some other details. Given that we’d called within about 2 minutes of the taxi dropping me off and could tell them the taxi number and exact time (from the Cabcharge docket), I thought it’d be pretty straightforward and they’d get hold of the driver before he got too far away, and I’d get my wallet back within minutes. Nearly 3 hours later, I still don’t have it. Can’t say I was impressed by the helpfulness of the operator at the cab company …. he was a bit “yeah, whatever” - like I was putting them out or something. His main concern seemed to be whether I was prepared to pay the driver to return my wallet if it was found … as a matter of fact I am, but I’d have thought common decency and desire to provide customer service might see it returned just as part of the taxi company’s service.

Fortunately, I have my plastic to pay my hotel and taxi bills while here, and can borrow some cash off work colleagues I’m travelling with. The amount of money in my wallet, about $100, is not great, although I’d prefer not to lose it. The big hassle of course is that if I don’t have it back by morning, I’m going to have to cancel and replace all my credit cards, license etc. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck!!!! What a goose!

Update (16/5/2006): Still haven’t got my wallet back. Totally unimpressed with Legion Cabs and their lack of interest in helping me track it down. I think if the driver and taxi company wanted to bother about finding it, I could have had it back within 15 minutes. Too much to ask I guess? Anyway, next step is to complain and complain and make a nuisance of myself till I get some action. My gut feeling is that the driver of T3046 on Sunday night knows exactly what happened to it … proving that will most likely be impossible.

Update (19/5/2006): Got the predictable response from Legion - the driver didn’t see any wallet, and says he picked up a new passenger just around the corner from where he dropped me off.

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