Passenger overhears taxi driver gossip about her on the phone in another language, she gets payback after revealing she got every word: 'You shouldn't make comments like that'

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Dec 16, 2024 1:00 PM EST

Anyone who can speak a second language will tell you how beneficial it is to have that ability. While there are many ways one can take advantage of speaking another language, one benefit triumphs them all – being able to talk freely about whatever you want in public and having no one understand you.

When I was 19, I got to spend a year abroad with 3 of my best friends. We all speak a fairly uncommon language other than English, so we'd use that language as our main source of communication amongst ourselves. However, on more than one occasion, we were not careful enough, and we said some pretty embarrassing things in front of people who later revealed they understood every word. Those moments were not our finest, to say the least, so from those moments on, we all learned our lesson.

This petty revenge story is a similar cautionary tale for those who think they can get away with gossiping about other people right in front of them, in a language they assume no one understands. It is also a funny story about an entitled taxi driver who got what he had coming, so please scroll down to enjoy it.

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    Cab driver rips me to shreds, thinking can't understand him-but I can
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    Obligatory this happened several years ago, a few months after | had moved to Chicago. I had moved there from Romania, where I'd been living and going to school. Love Romania, people
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    are great, drop what you're doing and visit. Anyway, while I was there, due to my living situation, I had to learn the language fast and thoroughly--not many people around me spoke English, outside of the uni I was at.
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    So fast forward to the few months after I arrived in Chicago. Imagine my surprise when the driver of the Uber I had ordered appeared to have a Romanian name. The area had a lot of Eastern Europeans so I guess it
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    shouldn't have been so surprising. I was really excited to talk to him and make sure I wasn't getting rusty, maybe make a friend.
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    Up pulls the guy, I get in, he greets me but he appears to be on the phone with a buddy/family member, so I just sit quietly in the back, listening in a bit. The person on the other end asks if the driver is getting
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    off work soon. He responded with something like the following: "No, I still have a few hours left, then I'll go home. Right now I have someone in the car. God, I
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    hate this country, the women here are so fat and ugly. At least this one has a nice chest but why can't she lose some weight?" And he goes on and on about all the problems with me and other American women. Now I've
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    always been a bit on the ch nky side and you best believe the Romanians loved to comment on it so I was used to it. But I was a bit shocked that this guy was going off like that.
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    Anyway, I'm just kinda sitting bemused in the back seat as we near my destination. Then I tell him, in Romanian, with all my might trying to pull off the distinct accent of the region I had
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    been living in: "Can you just pull over there, on the right?" I swear this guy's head did the Exorcist girl head move and he turned a shade of red I have seen nowhere else in nature. He didn't
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    say anything, just pulled over. When I got out I said thanks and added: "You're not attractive and you're also fat so maybe you shouldn't make comments like that." I have never again reached such levels of self pride.
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    HealthNo4265 • 2d ago • But did you tip him and what did you rate him? And did he rate you 5 stars?
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    bagelundercouch OP • 2d ago • Think my own rating might have taken a nosedive that day, whoops.
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    draakons_pryde • 2d ago This is amazing. Please tell me he was still on the phone at the time, and the other party heard everything. That would be the absolute icing on the cake.
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    bagelundercouch OP.2d ago He was still on the phone!
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    Shugakitty 2d ago • I'm from/living in Chicago and Romani. I'm all for the revenge lol. You should have pretended to be on the phone and used Romanian language. I promise not only would he have learned a lesson but he'd have likely been extremely
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    embarrassed. I would be shocked if he didn't try to make it up to you too. It excites my family to no end when someone has visited our country/knows our language/ or wants to engage about it.
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    bagelundercouch OP • 2d ago The Romani people hold a special place in my heart!!!
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    delulu4drama ⚫2d ago Excellent pettiness in ANY language
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    • PepperDogger 2d ago • Aunt-in-law(?) worked in a place for YEARS and the Japanese women there talked sh about her behind her back/in Japanese for YEARS. At her retirement, she gave her farewell address in very fluent Japanese. One might imagine there was some loss of face, with compound interest.
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    Horror_Asparagus9068 • 2d ago And then he drove directly to the burn unit
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    Dizzy_Guest8351 • 2d ago • I lived in Thailand for five years, and got to a conversational level in Thai. It's amazing the things people say around you when they think you can't understand.
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    mistyrootsvintage • 2d ago • I just ordered some of those ai translation earpods...I wanna know what they are saying in the nail shops
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