Dear Taxi drivers... (1 Viewer)

[postmasterswift]

a while back I got into a taxi with a few drinks on me...the driver said something I didn't quite catch so I said "what?" ....he looks at me in silence...then a few seconds later he says something again. and again I don't quite catch it. "...sorry, what?" ........takes me a good 30 seconds to realise he's speaking a foreign language on a handsfree kit and thinks i'm a complete nutter.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

I got a lecture from a Chad taxi driver about women and the evils of letting them drink.

He pointed out one particularly ragged girl outside Bondi Beach and said 'I drove her home last week. I pray for her soul'

 

[dleacht]

We saw a quite funny fight going on between a taxi driver and passenger on Sunday night. Obviously the guy didn't want to pay what he was supposed to, he'd thrown in 20euros and said that was all he had. The taxi driver had him in a hug from behind and he was hopping all over the place trying to get free. Funny to watch anyways

 

[egg_]

I usually get US politics and or asked about restaurants in NYC and I roll my eyes. Then I change the subject and talk about all the counties I've been to in Ireland. Stock conversational piece.

Wait a second! Are you Hayworth?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I got a lecture from a Chad taxi driver about women and the evils of letting them drink.

He pointed out one particularly ragged girl outside Bondi Beach and said 'I drove her home last week. I pray for her soul'

i got invited to mass by a taxi driver from ghana. he told me the end of the world would arrive any day and that the stone from st fintans well in mountrath that i was carrying was occult and that i should throw it away - who needs saints when you have god, he said.

 

[MDR]

Toyota aveyniseeess ees a vedy guuuuuud cardddd.

 

[the strange guy]

I got into a taxi with the driver completely tweaked off his nuts on
coke or speed or something...
He was jumping around in his seat, rubbing his nose and kept saying
I'M OKAY I'M OKAY
I laughed for a minute and then realised he wasn't joking.
So we legged it.

My mate was in a taxi where the driver swore blind he once got
a blowie for the fare off a twin while her sister was passed out.
Part of me wants to believe it.

 

[Skrankio-X]

i got invited to mass by a taxi driver from ghana. he told me the end of the world would arrive any day and that the stone from st fintans well in mountrath that i was carrying was occult and that i should throw it away - who needs saints when you have god, he said.

I took up an offer to go to a Ghana mass in The Hague for a laugh once. Crazy shit altogether. A quiet little chat about the bible upstairs first, then down into the chapel for the mayem. Singing, dancing, wild raucous gospel music, yelling in tongues - the works. Totally unselfconscious and exactly like those 'Messiah remix goes off' DrumN'Bass/mass youtube vids doing the rounds in some other thread.

Sound, mad people the Ghanans. I worked with a few, most memorably a massively overweight diabetic called Elvis who had a sideline in selling an interesting sex drug he called blackstone. They dress in loud colours, never speak when they can roar, and they bury each other in huge specialist coffins that represent what the deceased did in life.

Like this:
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/photo.day.php?ID=52081

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i should have gone i suppose but im not really into christianity. generally i wouldnt be into generalising about nationalities but ghanains are ridiculously friendly

all their shops and things have religious names too - the appointed hour internet cafe, Jesus Loves bus, for the love of god tailors etc

 

[Skrankio-X]

Yeah down with generalising. 'In my own personal experience' I should say. IMOPE like

Christianity is guff in my books too but it surely does float my boat in an outsider raised as an insider sorta way.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

a friend of mine and her fella were getting a taxi home recently. they dropped the boyfriend off first and she said "see you tomorrow" as he was getting out. the driver turns and goes "no you won't cos i'm going to take him up the mountains and slit his throat" and then started laughing as if it was a great big joke between them. a real oddball

 

[Hector Grey]

My mate was in a taxi where the driver swore blind he once got
a blowie for the fare off a twin while her sister was passed out.
Part of me wants to believe it.

a blowie?

 

[Moods For Mallards]

A guy I used to work with used to always ask the foreign taxi drivers if they had good skiing in their country, to my bemusement. And then he'd start the 'good natured' racial humour.

 

[the strange guy]

a blowie?

It's street slang for fellatio.

 

[Hector Grey]

It's street slang for fellatio.

between children?

 

[the strange guy]

Consenting children.

 

[Hector Grey]

better than getting it in the owie i suppose

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

What's the deal with all the mingin' taxis lately?

I've been in a few recently that have smelled incredibly bad.
I guess cloth seats and 18 hour shifts aren't a great combo, but still.

Should I report these fetid offenders to the regulator?

 

[killy kill]

What's the deal with all the mingin' taxis lately?

I've been in a few recently that have smelled incredibly bad.
I guess cloth seats and 18 hour shifts aren't a great combo, but still.

Should I report these fetid offenders to the regulator?

be good liveline fodder

they should make every liveline about taxi drivers

 

[therealjohnny]

be good liveline fodder

they should make every liveline about taxi drivers

Fingers crossed todays show will feature a TonyQuinn/Taxi driver mash up