I have no love for taxi drivers either
I think it stems from my childhood. The old boy next door had a daughter who was married to a taxi driver. He, the son in law, was rough as fuck. Their kids were pretty feral too.

This ingrained prejudice was further strengthened later when I was learning to drive. As I was driving along in the instructor's car (a 1.3 Maestro - woo!) a taxi reversed out of a parking space right in front of me. I jammed on the brakes, and as my instructor leaned over and blew the horn, he said to me, "Aye, well, you'll be all right even if you don't pass your test. You can always get a job as a taxi driver".

Fortunately I passed first time.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 13:58, Reply)