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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Pimp CabbieIn a northern city with work a few years back, me and a mate step into a cab outside our hotel and ask to be taken to a hostelry, wherein we could avail ourselves of a beverage or 15. Within 3 seconds or so of stepping inside said cab, the cabbie asks us thus : "Do you lads fancy a trip to the brass house?". Being good young men from fine families we had no idea what the giant hulking brutethe other side of the screen was talking about. Metal works? we wanted beer.
It turned out that brass house is scouse for brothel. We got the address, after checking in detail whether said cabbie was on commission, which he denied. Am glad to say we couldn't remember the address by the time we'd had enough alcohol to contemplate going there.
About 8 months later I was in same town again. With same lad as above, and two others. We get in hostelry bound cab. We regail our new companions who had never been to the city before with amusing brothel-cabbie anecdote, along with frustration that we couldn't remember the address.
Hulking cabbie chirps up: 'Aye it's Aigburth Avenue, mate'. For 'twas same pimp cabbie as before. How rare. After beers, I cannot say what happened for I am a gentleman of sorts, n all.
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