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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Going from a drunken night in leedsback to wakefield, we got a taxi.
not very strange, you say?
Well, you hear of cabbies taking the long wa round. well this guy took us for a fucking ride. 3x as long, 3x the fare.
It didn't end there, i actually thought he was kidnapping us. i always get off a bit earlier, and as we got nearer i was trying to tell him where i wanted off. he ignored me.
i then shouted where i wanted to get off.
he ignored me.
as we got past my usual stop off point, i got right up the the speaker window bit, and shouted at the top of my voice for him to stop.
he ignored me.
i started getting drunkenyly paranoid now, as it wasn't long after a woman got killed by getting into a so called taxi.
i banged on the window. no responce.
then, when we got to where everyone else got off, my friend in the taxi calmly said "can you stop just here please"
he stopped.
i didn't say anything, i was gobsmacked. i don't beleive i did anything for him to hate me. in fact i was probably the most polite in the taxi.
not really all that interesting, but it was a weird experience.
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Snorty McBumhole YouTube.com/MinistryOfGeeks, Wed 26 May 2004, 22:19,
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