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What pushed the situation from bad to absurd was what happened next. The driver stumbled upon a post by actress Sreeleela. Rather than keeping his eyes on the road, he slowed down right in the middle of the main street to open her profile and scroll through her posts. 'The ride had just begun, and I could already feel the minutes slipping away,' the user wrote, describing a mix of helplessness and rising frustration.
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