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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The AU ballAt the Athletics Union ball a month or so ago the rest of the rugby team and I staggered outside in tuxes and the lot, dates in tow after the ball was finished.
Barging to the front of the queue like proper arse holes, we got a 15 seater mini-bus mini-cab type thing. This would have been all well and good....if there weren't 30 of us.
10 minutes later, 30 of us are in this mini bus, singing offensive songs barreling along back from Gosforth to a mate's house....at about 90 mph! Cabbie didn't see a roundabout and I swer he didn't brake when he went round it. I could also swear we were on 2 wheel for a moment!
The rest of the trip in deathly silence.
He got a massive tip though, we all put a quid in so he was well chuffed!
sorry about length
(, Thu 27 May 2004, 15:02, Reply)
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