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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Oh yeah, almost forgotI was in a tax in Sydney a few years back, absolutely ratarsed. Cabbie had what I thought was an American accent.
"what part of America are you from?"
"I'm not from America, I'm from Canada!" came his pissed-off reply.
Not really thinking too hard, (I was only trying to be friendly), I told him that "I dunno, when you think about it, it's pretty much the same place"
Cabbie stops the cab and tells me to get out.
"Screw you, yankie!" I yell at the cab as it drives away...
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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Thu 27 May 2004, 10:07,
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