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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Turkey and Hong KongIn turkey got a cab late at night. Went to wind up the window as it was really draughty and noticed there was no windscreen.
In Hong Kong, was chatting to a mate in the back of a cab, when the driver turned round and started ranting and raving about the americans being an inferior race due to mixed race breeding.. and that the chinese would be superior due to their DNA..
I didn't tip him - just told him I was english and my mate was australian...
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Signify, Fri 28 May 2004, 9:12,
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