I tend to have this impression on women working in the so-called male-oriented work field, such as driving taxi, that they are manly women. Yet, this certain chaffeur I met and conversed with was a girly one. I asked why she chose to work as taxi driver, to which she replied, "I like to drive cars."
In certain point in our conversation, she told me that she once experienced a sexual harrasment from her customer. That old man, she narrated, insisted on sitting next to her, in the front row. He tried to hug her. She rejected him. "I always prepare a kunci roda in my right, for that kind of situation," she told me. Yet I forgot to ask her to show me that kunci roda.
Then I asked what happened next. Apparently her rejection prompted him to attempt to do more. So she dropped him in the Bundaran HI, next to where a police was standing. It was actually far from his supposed destination. "You, Sir, pay the fare and get off before I scream and call the police." The lady got what she wanted.
Anyway, her name is Maiyuliarnis and she is the only female driver in the Taxiku company.
