taxi drivers
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- mistermik
Robbing bastards.
Make no attempt to get through red lights anymore.
- ********0
yes, drive like a fuck-o and wonder why i give you no tip. i said "333 west xyz street please" not "50 bucks says you can't kill us both in less than 5 minutes".
- ********0
Yea it's weird. Sometimes I get ones who do, and other times I don't.
Occasionally I am grateful that they aren't risking my life as much as they normally do, but other times I'm like ... fuck I know this light is really long you daft cunt, haha.
My favourite is when I give a nice tip, they still try and get me for one more dollar. Actually I had a cabbie dropping me off from PHL take me the wrong route.
And when I got out and gave him his tip he was like, "Hey man, I drove you all over the place the flat rate isn't good."
I just went, "Yea, I didn't ask you to get lost. Sorry buddy."
Then in a hilarious turn of events, my next cab driver to take me to Citizens Park was hilarious ... and I actually got him again when I was going to the airport two days later.
He just went, "Oh shit, it's you again. My man. You don't smell like a brewery this time."
- kelpie0
I'm sure the cost has gone up substantially around here lately too, mik
- ********0
If I call ahead for a cab, there is like a 30% chance that the cab driver initially doesn't believe that I'm the Jerome they are to pick up.
So I have to explain to them that white people can be named Jerome and that I'm not taking someone else's cab, haha.
- mistermik0
still i remember when i was living here the first time round and a taxi driver thought i was a tourist.
He drove me around for miles and asked for £16. i just chucked my curry all over him. The front of his cab was plastered in madras. So he shut the doors and drove me to cop shop.
Coppers just laughed and let me go.
- CALLES0
I always wanted to take a side job as a cab driver... very fashionable if you ask me... lots of adventures... yes i would put a disco ball in it
- Jaline0
Never took a cab.
- chossy0
ha ha ha ha mistermilk.
- lowimpakt0
the best non-robbing taxi drivers are in sarajevo.
- ********0
When I was like 12-16 I'd run out on cabs all the time. The technique was to start counting the money like I was going to pay when they stopped and then just ... boom. Sometimes not even if they were at a full stop. Just lightning bolt into a building to go out their backdoor to cut through places.
Whenever I have an over the top horrendous cab driver, I always think it's just karma.
There was a cab driver in Baltimore who was really nice, despite the fact I had no idea where I was, where I was going, and just vaguely remember where this girl lived who I was staying with.
And in between yelling curse words out the window at the Ray Lewis restaurant, and my cousin setting my shirt on fire during the trip ... he was pretty laid back now that I think about it even with asking us to politely get the fuck out of his cab.
Another cab driver in Baltimore threatened to stab me as I told him since he wasn't listening to my directions to get where I wanted to go, I'm not paying him. This was directly after an undercover cop pulled a gun on me without identifying themselves.
As I was kicking the cab door telling him to come out and stab me, he peeled off when cops flashed their lights again.
My mute/comatose friend had left his phone in the car ... and the cabbie left about 10 detailed messages about how he was going to kill me thinking it was my phone, haha. Best part is at this point in time it's like 3-4AM and his wife was home all alone getting these messages having no idea what happened scared shitless.
Best part is that when I looked around to see where we were I noticed a few landmarks (crackheads) and was able to navigate the rest of the way. In hind sight I think the cab driver was trying to get us out of the projects when we told him we weren't from around here, haha.
- Meeklo0
is it true that in india all taxi drivers are north americans?
- acescence0
in nyc they changed the fare structure, so it's in their interest to go slowly, where it used to be more profitable to run lights and get you there faster
