Driving Mr. Lazy! (Part II)

Ever since I can remember, there have been two very important maxims that I’ve always tried to live my life by. To paraphrase, one of them is “treat people the way you’d like to be treated” and the other is “a person’s true character is always revealed by the way in which they treat those in the service industry”. The latter mainly engineered for those in constant interaction with every sort of personal service provider, from domestic helpers and restaurant servers to flight attendants and delivery agents. Just a fraction, of course, among scores of other wonderfully helpful people who are so vital to us in our day-to-day lives!  Interestingly, in the context of this article, both maxims are so relevant and reflective of what should be expected of a passenger being driven around by a chauffeur. Like I had mentioned in my earlier post on ‘Five Commandments’ for chauffeurs, as a travel writer who is loath to be found behind a steering wheel of any sort of vehicle, I have had my fair share of chauffeur-driven experiences to fill out the pages of a neat little book on mutually expected etiquette. So, this time I turn the spotlight the other way with my ‘Five