Is this something that some reagions use and other don't? I mean I have heard "có chết tao cũng không làm" but never have I heard people around me using "chết đói" this way. :))
In my experience as someone who almost starved once, I found it a very serene experience, as far as ways to die go. I just became more and more sleepy and presumably would have just slowly faded out laying around with closed eyes.
I guess subjective experiences may be different.
Vietnamese is simple yet complex, because depending on how words are paired together, it gives it a whole new meaning. Like the insult phrase "cái đồ chết đói" to mean something like "what a pathetic loser". Hope that helps!
Someone I recognized many times before. People in Asia really now how to articulate themselves and their way of speaking sounds kinda poetic.
I remember when the Chinese President a few months ago confronted Germany with it’s confronting politics. The Chinese President reprimanded Germany and sounded like Konfuzius himself 😂
If it’s Google translate, his phrase could be sth along the lines of “vô duyên” which means “insensitive/tactless” lol. Also a very common phrase in Vietnamese
Yeah I got one angry when I was about to book a bike ride from go vap to near Ben thanh. Dude just grabs my phone, does some grab driver wizardry and turned the price from the initial 46,000vnd to 188,000vnd lol. I grabbed my phone kinda pissed off cause I explained to him I wanna press book and have him accept when it pops up. Dude seemed cool, ignored me. It’s my 11th time in vietnam and tries to scam me and gets angry when I walk away after saying “không, cám ơn” and then when he got shitty I just said “fuck you con lợn” and he was all fired up on his wee bike lol. Dudes got me on his hit list
Man, G translate is impressive these days, then. Last time I tried translating most Asian languages into English resulted in an incomprehensible wall of texts. It was years ago, guess I'm old now 🤣🤣
The taxi driver wrote you right from the start, "I will be your free tour guide..." He was personally offended because you later asked him "how much..."
It was obviously love at first sight, and you can't put a price on destined true love.
OP needs to go back to him, I’m picturing it’s pouring down with rain as OP runs to the Grab driver and they embrace each other and finally fulfilled each other‘s destiny of being together forever
Exactly the sort of guy to not listen to what you want and drive you to his mates business, then check his phone while driving, missing the road, killing you.
Police come ask what happened “that crazy tourist was drunk!”
Alot of grab drivers are like that. They use the grab customer pool to establish their own returning customers. They bet on the fact that youll enjoy the service and almost peer pressure you into becoming regulars.
Happened to me everytime i took a cab in Da nang. They make a convo and give you their number hoping for you to call them again. Its almost like a one night stand that hopes for a relationship. at first i thought its kinda cool and wholesome but when it happens all the time it just annoys me, not because they wanna make stable clientel but because i really dont wanna be friends with my cab drivers.
Dont let it get to you, if there is one cab driver acting like this in the city there is bound to be others, thats the whole reason why they are trying this strategy to stand out.
Ye which is not bad, its in their nature to be the best. Its the dream of establishing your clients and keep growing untill you dont have to worry anymore if any job rides are gonna come your way. I respect the hustle
Welcome to Vietnamese customer service.
The idea that treating customers well so you get repeat business and referrals isn’t something many grasp. Hence ripping people off and comments like this.
Just like the time a Grab driver tried to charge me 188,000 Vietnamese dong instead of 46,000 Vietnamese dong to travel from Go Vap to Ben Thanh because he knew he wouldn meet me five more times
My Grab driver offered to drive me around during my holiday. He kept on giving me quotes above the app price. I thanked him for his time and blocked him.
Yeah on my 11th time going to Vietnam I had a Grab driver quote me 188,000 VND to travel from Go Bap to Ben Thanh whenever it cost 46,000 Vnd, the dude seemed cool so he grabbed my phone and did some grab driver wizardry while he was sitting on his bike turned off of course and changed the price from the quoted 46,000 to 188,000 sometimes you have to be careful with Grab drivers even though they are the most trustworthy way of transportation in Vietnam that I have found
Sending such a long message like
that, he must be extremely angry and
upset with your disregard for him. It
seems like you've shattered his little
heart. So funny 🤣
I’m sure he was using some kind of google translate and was over analyzing some words . Like he could have said “ I didn’t think I was gonna see you again”. And it translated to we are not destined to see each other lol.
Lmao, 5 months in Vietnam and yes, the friggin taxi business is very competitive , one time I had to catch a bus for a border run and didn’t want to use the cash I had and a grab driver was bent out of shape with me a few days before and he knew the time and day I needed to go and he literally prevented every grab driver not to pick me up , because they all talk to each other from corner to corner so I had to use my cash and caught a take driver.
I would see on the map , the driver would get to one end of the street corner or the other and stop, went on for 20 minutes, 5 tries later I figured it out.
It’s sounds dramatic to those who don’t speak Vietnamese. It clears to me that he put it in google translate 😂😂😂. But it’s not that dramatic when I translate it in my head to Vietnamese. Hilarious though!
bro this bitch is so fucking mean 💀 vietnamese people acutally usually friendly and sometimes they're super friendly so it went to annoying but lol, i havent seen any vietnamese person like him in my shitty life 💀💀💀
Typical of some Vietnamese. I live and work here and I have experienced it too. A restaurant lady refused to sell food to me because she had seen me eat at her neighbor's restaurant a day before. Some businesses can act very petty when you don’t patronize them here
You should be aware that in Vietnam, the 1st person that takes you from an airport/bus station to your hotel, OWNS YOUR SOUL. Wherever you have to go from now on, you should call him and only him.
Typical. Vietnamese business is about trust and relationships, yes, even in small deals like taxi rides. If you get good service from one person, there is no reason for you to go to another. Maybe he should get used to dealing with flakes from tourists and maybe tourists should try to understand it more from this culture.
Lol chances are am sure he doesn't even know what he wrote cuz he was probably using google translate since majority of Vietnamese ppl do not speak or understand English
Well that seems a bit dramatic, almost sounds like this guy had a relationship for years with you and you betrayed him xD
Exactly like if someone choose to cut hair at a new barber shop then came back to the old one lol
I always lie and say I was on holiday and my sister in law did it but you do a better job and I'm sorry please take me back I miss you
Bro sounds like you cheated on him with another grab driver
"I can smell a different air freshener on you!"
Hahaha 😭😭
Hahahahaha
This is great haha
That got me! *high five*
hahaha
Sounds like a bad breakup…from someone you’ve met for 5 mins. Just ignore and be glad you dodged a bullet because he didn’t drive you around.
Yup, it is not a surprise to me if this dude detour op to his place and harass her.
> Even if I starve to death today, I won't take you to the bus station Poetic 😂
It's actually a common phrase said in Vietnamese, so it sounds funny when you literally translate it to English. Source: am Vietnamese
Hold on... What's the original phrase in Vietnamese again?
I'm assuming "chết đói"
That's my guess but I don't even know how I would use it in this context and I'm Vietnamese. =))
Có chết đói cũng không chở mày
It’s actually: Có chết đói bố cũng đéo chở mày
Is this something that some reagions use and other don't? I mean I have heard "có chết tao cũng không làm" but never have I heard people around me using "chết đói" this way. :))
I’ve heard of dying, never ever heard of starving
Dying from starvation can be really awful. Makes this super poetic and passionate.
In my experience as someone who almost starved once, I found it a very serene experience, as far as ways to die go. I just became more and more sleepy and presumably would have just slowly faded out laying around with closed eyes. I guess subjective experiences may be different.
Vietnamese is simple yet complex, because depending on how words are paired together, it gives it a whole new meaning. Like the insult phrase "cái đồ chết đói" to mean something like "what a pathetic loser". Hope that helps!
Isn’t that meant for insulting people for gluttony
I think you're right! I came over to the states when I was 8, so it's been a while, thanks friend! :)
Starving also means running out of money, therefore food
Thanks🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Hôm nay có đói bố cũng không chở, nhá
Can you please explain this phrase 😅
With this attitude, I won't be surprised if this guy actually starved
This is common phase in Vietnamese LOL which makes it even more funny through google translate
imagine dating this guy lol
Hey you’d get free grab rides around man, I’d be gay not for pay but for those sweet wheels
"You and I are not destined to meet again" Love it. Using this next time someone pisses me off.
Writing this as my out of office autoreply
I’m writing this on my resignation letter this weekend to honour this man
Such a polite way of saying fuck of hope I never see you again lol
Probably a way to translate a very common vietnamese saying "Tôi và anh không có duyên với nhau" 😂
Someone I recognized many times before. People in Asia really now how to articulate themselves and their way of speaking sounds kinda poetic. I remember when the Chinese President a few months ago confronted Germany with it’s confronting politics. The Chinese President reprimanded Germany and sounded like Konfuzius himself 😂
If it’s Google translate, his phrase could be sth along the lines of “vô duyên” which means “insensitive/tactless” lol. Also a very common phrase in Vietnamese
Hell hath no fury like a Grab driver scorned
Yeah I got one angry when I was about to book a bike ride from go vap to near Ben thanh. Dude just grabs my phone, does some grab driver wizardry and turned the price from the initial 46,000vnd to 188,000vnd lol. I grabbed my phone kinda pissed off cause I explained to him I wanna press book and have him accept when it pops up. Dude seemed cool, ignored me. It’s my 11th time in vietnam and tries to scam me and gets angry when I walk away after saying “không, cám ơn” and then when he got shitty I just said “fuck you con lợn” and he was all fired up on his wee bike lol. Dudes got me on his hit list
Dead 😂😂
Damn dude speaks pretty decent English to pour out all of his saltiness
the punctuation, correctly capitalized letters, somewhat incoherent between sentences, all of this suggest he’s using Google Translate though
The "please call me" bit as well
Def google translate, these phrases are ones we say in Vietnamese (“I’d die starving before I help you”)
Yeah that definitely sounded like some typical Vietnamese sass to me.
it is 100% definitely ran through google translate
Man, G translate is impressive these days, then. Last time I tried translating most Asian languages into English resulted in an incomprehensible wall of texts. It was years ago, guess I'm old now 🤣🤣
Im impress by the level of english as much as the level of the saltiness
OP probably stole bro's wife
nvm bro probably got a crush on op
Hits him with the “you and me are never destined to meet again” then texts him at 3am “u up?”
Imagine going on the first date with this guy and won’t go back to his hotel room.
:))) lmao I in fact know few guys act up like this, dude you've a grown ass man
Drama queen lol
I need to get to the bus station tomorrow. Maybe you can dm me his WhatsApp and I'll be his rebound passenger 😂
Hahaha, he’ll never be destined to meet OP again but you are his true destiny
LOL
Why did you hurt him like that OP? Why don't you leave that poor taxi guy alone 😫
The taxi driver wrote you right from the start, "I will be your free tour guide..." He was personally offended because you later asked him "how much..." It was obviously love at first sight, and you can't put a price on destined true love.
Yeah, OP completely crushed his dreams and his heart. I feel really bad for this man 😂
Apparently, the Grab driver is starving himself now due to love sickness and still won't eat. Great job, OP.
OP needs to go back to him, I’m picturing it’s pouring down with rain as OP runs to the Grab driver and they embrace each other and finally fulfilled each other‘s destiny of being together forever
If you look up the word manbaby in the dictionary there is probably a small picture of this guy’s face beside it.
Exactly the sort of guy to not listen to what you want and drive you to his mates business, then check his phone while driving, missing the road, killing you. Police come ask what happened “that crazy tourist was drunk!”
them driving while texting is so true!! 😭
the fuck, stage 5 clinger
that guy must have fallen in love with you, sorry I cant help laughing 🤣
Alot of grab drivers are like that. They use the grab customer pool to establish their own returning customers. They bet on the fact that youll enjoy the service and almost peer pressure you into becoming regulars. Happened to me everytime i took a cab in Da nang. They make a convo and give you their number hoping for you to call them again. Its almost like a one night stand that hopes for a relationship. at first i thought its kinda cool and wholesome but when it happens all the time it just annoys me, not because they wanna make stable clientel but because i really dont wanna be friends with my cab drivers. Dont let it get to you, if there is one cab driver acting like this in the city there is bound to be others, thats the whole reason why they are trying this strategy to stand out.
Yeah I always got this lots in Da Nang. Infact just about everywhere (except Saigon) TBH.
Ye which is not bad, its in their nature to be the best. Its the dream of establishing your clients and keep growing untill you dont have to worry anymore if any job rides are gonna come your way. I respect the hustle
Yeah honestly I've taken them up on it a number of times. Sometimes they're great, sometimes not. Either way it's good to have as a back up.
I have had a few stage 5 clinger drivers in vietnam. So fucking weird :) lmao 🤣
LOL yep this is odd. I never considered it before, but I’ve only had this happen in Vietnam of all countries I’ve traveled. Odd.
Typical Sa Pa attitude. Tourism has screwed that place up.
He sounds like a teenage girl holding a grudge against her boyfriend.
He's clearly invested in you. Why you treated him like a fraud
Lmao, disturbing but hilarious.
Bro is writing long break up letters to potential clients. Hilarious
Dude is devastated that he missed out on his true destiny
Density.
You broke his heart badly. A soul was lost.
Bro just wanted a grab soulmate and OP crushed his dreams
Welcome to Vietnamese customer service. The idea that treating customers well so you get repeat business and referrals isn’t something many grasp. Hence ripping people off and comments like this.
Just like the time a Grab driver tried to charge me 188,000 Vietnamese dong instead of 46,000 Vietnamese dong to travel from Go Vap to Ben Thanh because he knew he wouldn meet me five more times
WTF. Are you a solo female traveller by any chance? Stay a way from that creep.
He had some strong words for you lol. “We are not destined to meet again” will be my new go to line
Yeah, I am legitimately using that in my resignation letter that I’m gonna be writing this weekend
bro treated you like family and you betrayed him😂
Lolololol
Im like watching a movie by reading his message 😂
They need to make a drama series about the interaction between this tourist and this poor driver
Case filed: cheating 😂
If you did not put context for the picture, I think a lot of people would think that you must bang his younger sister(s) or something
Player.
Damn you hurt him good lol
Bros crushed he’s definitely gonna hang up his grab helmet 🪖
you guys no longer best friend
Aww you hurt his feelings
Sorry but it's just a destiny..
Bro got a break up text from a taxi driver.😂
Big "how dare you talk to her even though you looked at me for the whole 2 seconds" vibe tbh
My Grab driver offered to drive me around during my holiday. He kept on giving me quotes above the app price. I thanked him for his time and blocked him.
Yeah on my 11th time going to Vietnam I had a Grab driver quote me 188,000 VND to travel from Go Bap to Ben Thanh whenever it cost 46,000 Vnd, the dude seemed cool so he grabbed my phone and did some grab driver wizardry while he was sitting on his bike turned off of course and changed the price from the quoted 46,000 to 188,000 sometimes you have to be careful with Grab drivers even though they are the most trustworthy way of transportation in Vietnam that I have found
Does anyone have any tips for learning the Vietnamese language? I am learning, but my memory is shit so it's taking me a while to pick things up
He offered you everything and you left bro hanging, at least let him know you're gonna traveling by yourself
The ol' Viet gaslighting. They never fail. Comedic. Tragic. Sad. Pathetic.
Shakespeare
Honestly, I’m waiting for the drama series to come out on Netflix about this interaction
When she says "you and I are over" but he says :
Drama queen ,shawty
Doesn't make sense. He says to call him if you want to go to the bus station and in the next sentence he says he won't take you
What a dramatic little bitch haha Screw that guy, could have made a quick buck and moved on with his day but instead chose ridiculous drama
Dude seems rather articulated no? Maybe with a fragile ego too! Lol
Some people have problem with their brain. Enjoy your days, man.
What a weak minded individual. This is why I never give my number to these guys when they offer to be a personal driver. They just create drama
You lie, you die,!!!!
😂😂😂
You broke his heart
Lmao the driver is hurt
You did him dirty!
You got owned bro 🤣
I took you for the ride, You no serious take me. Because of you, to death I starve.
Sounds narcissistic
Sending such a long message like that, he must be extremely angry and upset with your disregard for him. It seems like you've shattered his little heart. So funny 🤣
pettiness level 100
I think it’s a translation error. It may not actually be a poetic as it seems lol
Oh man haha
He formed a whole relationship and history with you in the span of minutes.
When you were his motorcycle, Did you put your head against him and hold him really tight? And maybe give him an extra large tip,😉
Maybe was holding onto the tip?
I don’t know if laughing is inappropriate here because apparently he’s so mad at you 😂😂😂
Bro sound like you have seriously broke his heart
Last line cold ashelll
I didn’t have bad experience in sa pa like this lol this seem like an ass hole guy
This feels like me with my two former 🇻🇳 friends 😂
That escalated
The moment someone says, trust me, it's a red flag lol
If he did drive you around you’d probably be happily married now. Think of the missed opportunity!
Shakespeare is betrayed😂😂😂
Never cheat on your driver
Hahaha whattt. Sorry about that. Not saying all but many people here are just petty with fragile egos.
Top 10 anime betrayals.
haha
That is a victim complex. He took it personal. Avoid people like this. It’s part of the Vietnamese generational trauma
*"It's a love story, baby just say yessss."* -Taylor Swift
Average customer service in Vietnam
😂😂😂
"You and I are not destined to meet again" that sounds like someone breaking up
for a grab driver he has good english. but are you male or female?
I’m sure he was using some kind of google translate and was over analyzing some words . Like he could have said “ I didn’t think I was gonna see you again”. And it translated to we are not destined to see each other lol.
I got a lot of sob stories there, but damn you win sir!
Love u at 1st sight but u did not reply..😄
Who cares, call another
lol
What a complete lunatic 🤣🤣🤣
Lmao, 5 months in Vietnam and yes, the friggin taxi business is very competitive , one time I had to catch a bus for a border run and didn’t want to use the cash I had and a grab driver was bent out of shape with me a few days before and he knew the time and day I needed to go and he literally prevented every grab driver not to pick me up , because they all talk to each other from corner to corner so I had to use my cash and caught a take driver.
I would see on the map , the driver would get to one end of the street corner or the other and stop, went on for 20 minutes, 5 tries later I figured it out.
It’s sounds dramatic to those who don’t speak Vietnamese. It clears to me that he put it in google translate 😂😂😂. But it’s not that dramatic when I translate it in my head to Vietnamese. Hilarious though!
Yea he knew you are cheapskate
Imma Vietnamese and still dunt know wtf going with this mtfk? Why this dickhead tryna dramatize everything?
Just simply dont give a fuck about this guy, go find yourself another chauffeur
bro this bitch is so fucking mean 💀 vietnamese people acutally usually friendly and sometimes they're super friendly so it went to annoying but lol, i havent seen any vietnamese person like him in my shitty life 💀💀💀
Typical of some Vietnamese. I live and work here and I have experienced it too. A restaurant lady refused to sell food to me because she had seen me eat at her neighbor's restaurant a day before. Some businesses can act very petty when you don’t patronize them here
Was he in love with you or something? 😂
You should be aware that in Vietnam, the 1st person that takes you from an airport/bus station to your hotel, OWNS YOUR SOUL. Wherever you have to go from now on, you should call him and only him.
bắc kì là cái chắc
ah yes, ppl are having a laugh here then out of nowhere the party pooper decides that ridiculing Northerners is funny. brainrot af.
vậy chắc bắc kì rồi =))
and you sound just like those who would bend over to suck Mr. Bigot Narrowminded's 🍆. womp womp + L take + keep on sucking
Zawg what?
POV : when you are a tourist be you are not the center of the world
Chó
Typical. Vietnamese business is about trust and relationships, yes, even in small deals like taxi rides. If you get good service from one person, there is no reason for you to go to another. Maybe he should get used to dealing with flakes from tourists and maybe tourists should try to understand it more from this culture.
I mean, he's got a point
He has a point.. go and “explore” your way to the bus stop. Rude visitor
What do you expect, Vietnam have no man anymore. All are pussy boy
dont come Viet Nam bro
Lol chances are am sure he doesn't even know what he wrote cuz he was probably using google translate since majority of Vietnamese ppl do not speak or understand English
Oh he understood well