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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MANDA COLLEGE!!i was in a mini cab going to this gig at bedford college. so i got in and said "bedford college please" and he said
"manda college!" he was from the west indies i think, so his accent was rather hard to understand. so we set off after me just saying "No no, BEDFORD COLLEGE" to him. so he then started talking about how it used to be called manda college, but it was renamed, and he did electronics there in the sixties. while he was saying all this, he was staring at me in the rear view mirror, and gesticulating wildly with his hands. i of course was more minded towards the road. since both his hands were off the wheel, the car began to move off to the right.... into the other lane. so i was sat trying to conceal my fear that we were about to have a head on collision and i'd miss the gig, and at the same time feign interest in his degree in electronics.......
(my apologies for the length, it really wasn't that great was it?)
(, Thu 27 May 2004, 18:24, Reply)
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