Have you ever wondered?

When you get onto the backseat of a cab at night, and you can't really see the driver's face. I mean of course you can't see if he/she doesn't turn back to look at you (which most of them don't do), have you ever fallen into the dilemma of whether to speak in mandarin or english?

Then do you start to look for tell tale signs, like trying to squint through the darkness at the driver (not too obviously of course, otherwise he'll think you're either trying to size him up or making eyes at him) to try and guess his racial group.

And if you really can't figure it out, you'll try looking at the driver's name plate. It becomes easy when the plate has 1 name or 2 names of the same racial group. But what if the 2 names are different? That'll be a challenge. But then at times.. although the name is maybe of that of a Malay, but then the driver may look a little Chinese from behind.. then you start to wonder if this is really the driver registered for the cab. I think too much? Ya, I think so!

Well if all that doesn't work, you try for the last method of identifying if the driver understands english or mandarin. If you haven't guessed it till now, its the radio channel! But then again, it confuses you when you see a Chinese name on the plate but he's listening to english songs. But then again, if he's listening to english songs, means using english is fine =D

Is it just me, or does anybody also wonder about stuff like these too?