A businessman from Bengaluru recently experienced an unexpectedly engaging taxi ride after discovering the surprisingly vibrant social network of his driver. While travelling, the entrepreneur observed that the driver had kept his phone on loudspeaker for over an hour, making and receiving a series of dramatic calls.
The first call involved a distraught friend who confessed that the woman he cherished was in love with someone else. Overcome by heartbreak, the friend was in tears and expressed thoughts of harming himself. Responding swiftly, the driver phoned another acquaintance, instructing them to reach the distressed friend and stay with him until he could personally arrive.
Soon after, another conversation unfolded about a completely different issue—someone had apparently attempted to defraud a ride-hailing service by using the driver’s photograph, which had led to his identification being suspended. Without missing a beat, the driver rang yet another contact to vent about the suffocating traffic conditions in central Bengaluru.
Still concerned about the first friend, the driver made a separate call to request another companion to check on the individual contemplating self-harm. During that exchange, he delivered an impromptu five-minute lecture on the realities of love and relationships.
Finally, as if summarizing a day’s worth of drama, he contacted his own partner to recount all the preceding events in detail. Throughout the journey, the entrepreneur sat in the back seat, fascinated by the sheer variety of people and stories orbiting around this one driver’s life.
The businessperson found himself so entertained and absorbed in the unfolding mini-series of conversations that he jokingly wondered how to tell the driver he no longer wanted the trip to end, just to keep listening to the remarkable saga playing out on speakerphone.
"How do I tell him I don't want to end the ride now?" he wrote.
The entrepreneur is co-founder of a delivery startup in Bengaluru.
The first call involved a distraught friend who confessed that the woman he cherished was in love with someone else. Overcome by heartbreak, the friend was in tears and expressed thoughts of harming himself. Responding swiftly, the driver phoned another acquaintance, instructing them to reach the distressed friend and stay with him until he could personally arrive.
Soon after, another conversation unfolded about a completely different issue—someone had apparently attempted to defraud a ride-hailing service by using the driver’s photograph, which had led to his identification being suspended. Without missing a beat, the driver rang yet another contact to vent about the suffocating traffic conditions in central Bengaluru.
Still concerned about the first friend, the driver made a separate call to request another companion to check on the individual contemplating self-harm. During that exchange, he delivered an impromptu five-minute lecture on the realities of love and relationships.
My rapido cab driver has been on calls ON SPEAKER for the last hour.
— Shaheer Ahmed (@whoshaheer) September 26, 2025
First, his friend calls him & says the girl he loves actually loves someone else (starts crying), and he can't take it & wants to k*ll himself
So he then calls another friend to immediately go & handle him…
Finally, as if summarizing a day’s worth of drama, he contacted his own partner to recount all the preceding events in detail. Throughout the journey, the entrepreneur sat in the back seat, fascinated by the sheer variety of people and stories orbiting around this one driver’s life.
The businessperson found himself so entertained and absorbed in the unfolding mini-series of conversations that he jokingly wondered how to tell the driver he no longer wanted the trip to end, just to keep listening to the remarkable saga playing out on speakerphone.
"How do I tell him I don't want to end the ride now?" he wrote.
The entrepreneur is co-founder of a delivery startup in Bengaluru.
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