📝 AITA for calling my taxi driver a psycho after he yelled at a special needs kid, Max for not finding the seatbelt?

By miffysdiary • Score: 0 • April 8, 2025 7:14 AM


This happened a few days ago, and I'm still kinda shocked about it, I need time to process it.

I was taking a taxi with a friend of mine and her little brother, Max, who has special needs. He's super sweet but sometimes needs extra help with things like seatbelts or instructions.

We get in the taxi, and the driver IMMEDIATELY has bad energy. He’s super impatient while we’re settling in. Max was struggling to find where to buckle his seatbelt (it was kinda stuck between the seats). Instead of helping or even just waiting a second, this dude absolutely loses it and starts yelling "Come on! It's not that hard! Hurry up!"

The poor kid was getting overwhelmed and flustered, so I snapped back at the driver like, "Relax, he's trying. Don't yell at him."

Not even 5 minutes into the ride, there’s a car accident in front of us, thankfully no one looked seriously hurt. But this taxi driver starts laughing like genuinely celebrating it saying stuff like, "Haha! That's what they get!" like??? who laughs at a fresh car accident??

At this point, I just straight up told him "You're a psycho" and when we got to our stop, I made sure to leave him a 1 star review and report him.

My friend thinks I might’ve escalated the situation by calling him that, but honestly I don’t feel bad.

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