Honorata Skarbek interrupted her taxi ride: “I have no desire to continue driving with such a simpleton”.

Conflict in the car – what really happened?

Honorata, freshly back from Greece, ordered a ride in Warsaw during a busy working day. Already in the middle of a business call from the phone, the driver was resentful:

I got into this Uber, all the while talking on the phone…. after 15 seconds… he said: ‘You’re in a taxi, please don’t yell on the phone and let the driver concentrate on driving.

The artist calmed down the conversation but asked why she couldn’t continue:

I stiffened…. I asked the taxi driver if he was making a joke…. he told me that it was his car, his rules and he did not wish passengers to talk on the phone while driving.

Honorata Skarbek got off after 500 metres

After only half a kilometre, Honorata decided to stop the course:

I slammed the door, shouted to him further on my way out that I did not feel like continuing to drive with such a simpleton…. I wrote a complaint… Of course I got an apology and a refund, but that’s not the point at all.

Driver versus passenger

Skarbek stressed that the conversation had a calm tone and a high culture of speech, but it was a reason for the taxi driver to make a categorical comment. After the incident, the star notes the problem is wider than a single fare – she wonders why these situations happen at all. What do you guys think about this situation? Who was right: the driver or the passenger?