Mini Cabs From HellWe've all taken a dodgy cab in our time. One guy asked me to give him a back-rub in exchange for letting me off the fare. I was like, "here's the cash mate." Another chappy claimed to be Paddy Patel - a child actor from UK TV series Tuckers Luck - he drove like a speed freak and regaled me with stories that "playing a black Irish boy. England wasn't ready for it." So go on - tell us your worst and we'll tell the world.
[edit: for those confused by the term mini-cab, London has two sorts of taxis: highly regulated, licensed and salt-of-the-earth black cabs that you see in films and a whole bunch of unlicensed, uninsured, random cars driven by nutters who aren't supposed to pick up from the street (you have to phone for them). They are universally rubbish]
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rob, Wed 26 May 2004, 21:44)
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We've been taking a lot of cabs early in the morning recentlyto get to Hammersmith Hospital for insanely early appointments.
Anyway, the other week we get a guy who managed to get from Holloway to White City (about 10 miles) in 12 minutes.
At one point he saw a mate of his on the elevated section of A40 and decided to race him to the junction.
We arrived 40 minutes early for the appointment and 20 minutes before the clinic opened.
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chthonic, Thu 27 May 2004, 10:47,
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