I sodding hate black cabs
I avoid them whenever possible but tonight I had to get in one because the OH was ill and needed to get home pronto.
I don't think I have ever met an honest black cab driver. Every time they take me down most ridiculous route home, down whatever obtuse 'back roads' or speed-bump ridden 'short cuts' they think they can get away with.
Tonight was no exception. I purposely caught this black cab from a spot in town where they can U-turn back to the ring road and hit the gas straight out of town. This chancer decided he would drive into the centre of town around the one-way system through red-light after red-light. I pointed this out to him, asking if the other road was closed, but his response was that this was the quickest way and the other way would have cost more (LIES!! ). I replied with a very sarcastic and unimpressed "Oh really?", so that our cabby knew he had been busted.
When we got home he was looking kind of embarrassed at the sum on his meter, and admitted he would accept a lower fee.
I avoid them whenever possible but tonight I had to get in one because the OH was ill and needed to get home pronto.
I don't think I have ever met an honest black cab driver. Every time they take me down most ridiculous route home, down whatever obtuse 'back roads' or speed-bump ridden 'short cuts' they think they can get away with.
Tonight was no exception. I purposely caught this black cab from a spot in town where they can U-turn back to the ring road and hit the gas straight out of town. This chancer decided he would drive into the centre of town around the one-way system through red-light after red-light. I pointed this out to him, asking if the other road was closed, but his response was that this was the quickest way and the other way would have cost more (LIES!! ). I replied with a very sarcastic and unimpressed "Oh really?", so that our cabby knew he had been busted.
When we got home he was looking kind of embarrassed at the sum on his meter, and admitted he would accept a lower fee.
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