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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I don't know what this 'mini cab' business is--I'm assuming it's British. But if we're talking regular cabs...
One of my friends at my university has a car but parks it off-campus, since parking on campus is impossible. So we decide we want to go somewhere in the car, and we decide to take a cab to the car.
About halfway through our trip, the cab breaks down. In a lane of traffic. In the middle of rush hour. The taxi driver is swearing quietly at his completely unresponsive vehicle, people are honking behind us, etc. We were exasperated but not really freaked out, since everyone was acting as one would expect in such a situation.
Until a tiny Indian woman got out of one of the cars stuck behind us and came up alongside the cab, yelling at the driver to pull over. Cabbie leaps out of the cab, stomps up to this small woman (he was a large guy) and begins shouting, "FUCK YOU, YOU LITTLE MUSLIM BITCH, YOU WANNA TRY AND SHOVE THE FUCKING CAR? IT'S NOT FUCKING MOVING, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP OR GO BACK TO FUCKING ARABIA. THERE ARE TOO MANY OF YOU FUCKERS IN THIS FUCKING CITY ANYWAYS, IF I GOT RID OF YOU NO ONE WOULD FUCKING CARE."
The woman's two kids (both around the toddler age) were sitting in their car watching this, with the windows down.
The three of us (timid female college students) are sitting in the cab in silent shock. Eventually another cab from the same company came and took us the rest of the way, and we were mightily glad to part with our former driver.
Although really the most shocking bit is that he was calling her a muslim, when, you know, India most definitely isn't.
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TheFelineAnarchist, Thu 27 May 2004, 6:11,
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