During the COVID circuit breaker, he had ferried an elderly woman from Mount Elizabeth Hospital to a nursing home in Jurong. She was crying, not from pain, but because she hadn’t seen her son in six months. Liam had driven an extra 15 kilometers—unpaid—to pass by her son’s condo just so she could wave from the window.
His fingers hovered. He remembered the medical exam—the eye test, the blood pressure check, the doctor asking, “Do you feel safe to drive for long hours?” He remembered the mandatory online course about passenger safety, the video of a driver getting assaulted that played on a loop. pdvl renewal
Tomorrow, he would book his medical exam. Next week, the course. And by next month, PDVL-04219 would be valid again, ready to carry the city’s weary souls from one streetlight to the next. During the COVID circuit breaker, he had ferried