I had a ****er lecturing me in independence... Told him to shut the **** up and got out early... I'm no there for a conversation...I'm there to get to point B
If I have time I try to get a bus so I can read my book without having to talk to anyone. When I was commuting back and forth to Belfast every taxi driver in Douglas knew my fricken life story from my weekly airport trips. Actually I try to avoid interacting with humans when I go shopping now as well - I like the self service tills. The technological future is bright for misanthropes
Exactly... Show yer pass to the driver Go to the self service till Shop online Buy yer tickets from the machine Use the atm
To be fair when I've been up to Scotland (Edinburgh and Aberdeen) the taxi drivers have always been rather talkative. In London they do tend to shut up without much encouragement
In fairness they're probably quite nice blokes and they're friendly and helpful and all that but I'm the archetypal grumpy old man.
Naw Aberdeen is awash with arsehole cabbies. The few decent ones are hidden among racists, psychos and fuds moaning about congestion.
In my case it's never likely to happen, my brain seems to be pre-programmed. I tell one joke and it reminds me of another and another and so on. I tell jokes in machine gun fashion, fire off enough and a few are bound to hit the target..
My Da is a Taxi driver. He has been told a million times the taxis are ten times cheaper here than in Jockland. I had a taxi in Edinburgh and it was about 30 quid. How the **** could a taxi be 30 quid in the same city?
What's minimum fare now? It was £2.50 for the first 2 miles last time I counted a few years back. I used to get a taxi from Carnmoney to Belfast City airport every Wednesday morning to fly back to the IOM, it cost me £10 for about 7 miles. My taxi to the airport from work on the Isle of Man was £20 for 5 miles - it's a fixed government rate much higher than the meter, to try fleece tourists. In fact all taxi fares are fixed by the Government here, which is why there's never any work for the drivers as the rates are too high for normal people to afford on a big empty ****ing island where everything is miles apart http://www.gov.im/lib/docs/RTLC//tariffcard2012.pdf
As Clint said in Coogan's Bluff Taxi driver: That's $2.95, including the luggage. Coogan: Tell me, how many stores are there named Bloomingdales in this town? Taxi driver: One, why? Coogan: We passed it twice. Taxi driver: It's still $2.95, including the luggage. Coogan: Yeah, well there's $3.00, including the tip.
