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Driving a taxi provides numerous opportunities to interact with interesting individuals from all walks of life.

One taxi driver certainly experienced a rather amusing encounter recently.

All coins

On July 30, a cabbie surnamed Zaffre had picked up a young passenger from Orchard who was heading to Bukit Batok.

Zaffre shared with Mothership that during the course of the trip, the "teenage girl" did not indicate whether she would be making payment with cash or card.

Upon reaching the destination, she opted for cash to pay the S$17.20 taxi fare—but not in the form of the notes that you might expect.

Instead, the girl first handed him one 20 cents coin, followed by four paper packets of coins.

Each packet had been stapled to seal it, and was labeled with the amount of money it contained.

When questioned by Zaffre why she was paying the fare like this, the girl simply said that this was what she had.

Took 10 minutes to count the coins

Zaffre said that he initially felt annoyed and reluctant to accept the coins, as he was unable to count them at the moment.

However, the girl apparently asked him to trust her that the amount was accurate.

Zaffre said that he thought that perhaps the girl had taken the money from her piggy bank, and thus decided to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Zaffre only managed to count the coins after work at home.

It took him 10 minutes to do so, with the help of his daughter and son-in-law.

Thankfully, the coins added up to S$17 like the girl had assured, despite two of the five cent coins being of China and Hong Kong currency.

According to a Facebook post by Zaffre's daughter Liyanah, documenting the rather bizarre encounter, there were many five and 10 cent coins inside the packets.

Liyanah added that although her father had been "pissed", she applauded the girl for being honest and for "adding some humour to [their] lives".