Irish tourist takes cabbie for Ferrari World joyride..
Hats off to this guy .... Well done sir ..
Kind-hearted engineer, who was in Dubai on a business trip, decided to invite his driver on a whim to join him in the Yas Island theme park when he learned the Indian national had never been inside the park despite making countless trips to drop off customers at its gates over the years.
The kind-hearted test engineer, who was in Dubai on a business trip, decided to invite his driver on a whim to join him in the Yas Island theme park when he learned the Indian national had never been inside the park despite making countless trips to drop off customers at its gates over the years.
He said: “My friends recommended I go to Ferrari World and try out the fastest roller coaster in the world. So I picked up a taxi from Dubai to take me there on a return journey.”
En route, Murphy struck up a conversation with Shakiha, who revealed he’d been working in UAE for the past 14 years and sends money every month to his family in India.
Murphy stated “When I asked him what he would do when I am in the park for four hours, he said he normally just waits in the car. And I thought to myself, the price of the ticket is not that much [starts at Dh250] so why don’t I just bring him along.”
“I asked him if he’s ever been on a roller coaster and he said no,” recalled Murphy. “So I said, we might as well go to the best one and we went straight to the fastest one in the world.”
The frightened duo strapped themselves into the Formula Rossa, which boasts a top speed of 240 kilometres per hour, with an acceleration of 0 to 100km/h in two seconds.
When quizzed if Shakiha enjoyed the experience, Murphy simply said: “He refused to go on it again.”
Murphy added: “I was going to get him a copy of the pictures we took there but he refused. I guess he didn’t see the value in it.”
Little did Murphy know his post would go viral, with nearly 4,000 likes and 300 shares; a post from the folks on The Ellen DeGeneres Show have also contacting him for the tale.
Wild Turkey: Have I provided a list of my good deeds or even a single one at QL or any other social site throughout the world as this one person has who probably did a good dead just one time in his life? Read man, read with an open mind.
It is indeed very humble to say:" I have done so many good deeds to people throughout my life irrespective of race, religion, cast or color but I do it quietly and do not make a fanfare of my act verbally or through social media." However, QL to me seems to be 'social media'.
I have done so many good deeds to people throughout my life irrespective of race, religion, cast or color but I do it quietly and do not make a fanfare of my act verbally or through social media. I get much internal joy and satisfaction from such an act and leave the scoring to the "one who sits up there and watches quietly."
Khan : who are you referring to when you say this "And this crap people interested in Crap justure." The QLérs are not CRAP people Sir and I presume is a TYPO.... not Justure But its Gesture ... a good deed or something kind and good done to a fellow human being. So please do not call QLérs Crap Please..Sir Khan
Faith in humanities should always persist, if we dont then who wil...
khan: yes, there are atrocities all around. We should not turn a blind eye to them. BUT, we should also applaud good deeds when they occur..
KHAN. you are so critical and passive person
what you were refereeing to is something that needs to be changed, and we need to work on it together
but the Irish man did his part by making someone happy, and making a man happy is something great!
What a good deed,,, Good on him the Irish guy :)
Khan, So sad to hear that ........... in a similar story a man was run over by a train in India very recently at about 6 AM ... railway police did not remove his body for 6 hours by that time 16 more trians passed over his remains ................ still we consider ourselves humans ........... !
And by the way, while driving my car I found a helpless Bird with an injured feather crossing the 5 lane road by walking and in pain due to the injury. The bus driver on my right saved her life by letting her be in the centre of the bus as he passed above her . I was on the neighbouring track but I had to take a U turn to return to the same track to save her. I told my wife, the bird will be dead by the time I return to save her. It happened the same way. I returned to find her lifeless body flattened by the tires .
I dont like this crap.
People dying around the world....
The Afghans, the Pakistanis , the Uzbeks, the Kurds, the Yemenis, the Sudanese, the Indians, the Iraqis,
the Palestinians, the Syrians.......
And this crap people interested in Crap justure.
Thanks .. Would have liked that :0)
This is a Great Gesture Murphy..... BritExpat thanKs for the info Well we do not have this in Qatar else I would have taken you.
This is a Great Gesture Murphy..... BritExpat thanKs for the info Well we do not have this in Qatar else I would have taken you.