-- Posted by Majo at 7:57 am on Nov. 12, 2008 Have you ever called to order a taxi and spoken with someone who didn't either have a strange accent you couldn't understand or talk so fast and sounded so tense that you thought their brain might explode? Because I've used a taxi three times...twice, the person talked really fast, the third time the person had a really weird accent that I couldn't understand and despite being from the area, had really no clue where my university was. Makes me dislike ordering a taxi... -- Posted by XMariex at 7:58 am on Nov. 12, 2008 Yes! Its annoying as hell! -- Posted by jessikita89 at 7:58 am on Nov. 12, 2008 id look up another taxi company and call them inless they are the only one around. -- Posted by cave man at 7:58 am on Nov. 12, 2008 this shouldnt be hard -- Posted by Majo at 7:59 am on Nov. 12, 2008 Quote: from cave man at 10:58 am on Nov. 12, 2008 this shouldnt be hard I didn't say it was. Reading isn't hard, either... -- Posted by Majo at 8:00 am on Nov. 12, 2008 Quote: from jessikita89 at 10:58 am on Nov. 12, 2008 id look up another taxi company and call them inless they are the only one around. I have. Those were all different companies. -- Posted by Dannay at 8:00 am on Nov. 12, 2008 i called this person about this postage thing and like he said something 10 times and i didn't understand him then he suddenly said do you have the labels like how couldn't i have understood that lol -- Posted by cave man at 8:04 am on Nov. 12, 2008 Quote: from Majo at 7:59 am on Nov. 12, 2008 Quote: from cave man at 10:58 am on Nov. 12, 2008 this shouldnt be hard I didn't say it was. Reading isn't hard, either... i was talking to the person who made this post and i know what you're going to say in response to this so just dont -- Posted by Aqueous at 8:08 am on Nov. 12, 2008 I don't really take taxis, the cab drivers where I live are SO sketch, they scare me. I never take a cab alone. -- Posted by xdark angelx at 8:14 am on Nov. 12, 2008 We get a computer and dont have to talk to anyone unless your on a mobile then you get people who think your dumb cause they said somehting so fast you didn't get them. -- Posted by Majo at 8:16 am on Nov. 12, 2008 Quote: from jzbaby at 11:08 am on Nov. 12, 2008 I don't really take taxis, the cab drivers where I live are SO sketch, they scare me. I never take a cab alone. Yeah, I know what you mean. Of all the taxi drivers I've had, I've liked one, maybe two. The first one I took told me about how he has to lock his money up in a metal box and them put carpet over it so no one sees it and it actually looked pretty convincing. I wouldn't be surprised if that dude was carrying a gun on him somewhere, he was ready for anything. Another taxi driver played heavy metal music (whatever he was playing wasn't that bad actually) and talked about how he wanted to move into town with his wife, who wanted to stay in the city, and about how he used to work at this one factory we passed by, etc. He was pretty cool. But then I had one who had a strange accent and listened to the same fucking song the whole way to my school. God, he drove me fucking nuts. It was in another language...reminds me of Apu from The Simpsons... Anyways, I think the singers were just singing the same thing over and over again because I could recognize it. It was like, "WTF? Deja vu..." and this song continued nonstop like that, the same thing over and over again, for the entire ride. We're talking 10+ minutes. Then, he couldn't find the school and assumed I should know how to get there. Dude, I'm a transfer, I'm not from the area...you are...how do you explain that? -- Posted by isobel at 8:16 am on Nov. 12, 2008 I never order a taxi, I just wait for one to come. There's at least one every 2 minutes. Taxi drivers are the most talkative people ever, and they never cease to amaze me with how well they know the streets. -- Posted by showgirl xx at 8:19 am on Nov. 12, 2008 We don't have a lot of taxi's where I'm from...I've never used one -- Posted by mightyboosher at 8:26 am on Nov. 12, 2008 A few weeks ago my friends got into three separate cabs in groups of 3/4 to take them to a hotel, but none of the drivers knew where the hotel was because it was new. 2 finally got there and agreed to knock off a few pounds as it was their fault it took so long but the last group refused to pay full price (Over £10 when it should have been about £6) so the cab drive locked the doors, so they called police, ended up at a police station and told the police about it and the police put them into a taxi that knew were it was going. They all got really scared when he locked the doors and refused to let them go o_O -- Posted by Majo at 8:29 am on Nov. 12, 2008 Quote: from mightyboosher at 11:26 am on Nov. 12, 2008 A few weeks ago my friends got into three separate cabs in groups of 3/4 to take them to a hotel, but none of the drivers knew where the hotel was because it was new. 2 finally got there and agreed to knock off a few pounds as it was their fault it took so long but the last group refused to pay full price (Over £10 when it should have been about £6) so the cab drive locked the doors, so they called police, ended up at a police station and told the police about it and the police put them into a taxi that knew were it was going. They all got really scared when he locked the doors and refused to let them go o_O Holy...shit... Did they have to pay the other driver? Was he charged with anything? Was anyone? -- Posted by mightyboosher at 10:09 am on Nov. 12, 2008 Quote: from Majo at 4:29 pm on Nov. 12, 2008 Quote: from mightyboosher at 11:26 am on Nov. 12, 2008 A few weeks ago my friends got into three separate cabs in groups of 3/4 to take them to a hotel, but none of the drivers knew where the hotel was because it was new. 2 finally got there and agreed to knock off a few pounds as it was their fault it took so long but the last group refused to pay full price (Over £10 when it should have been about £6) so the cab drive locked the doors, so they called police, ended up at a police station and told the police about it and the police put them into a taxi that knew were it was going. They all got really scared when he locked the doors and refused to let them go o_O Holy...shit...   Did they have to pay the other driver? Was he charged with anything? Was anyone? They didn't pay him, they only payed the guy who actually got to the hotel, and that was about £6 as it should have been....They don't know if he was charged, the police let them go and kept the guy so he was probably fined/reported to his company. -- Posted by 4est at 10:18 pm on Nov. 18, 2008 A life long friend of mine drives cab, so I call him directly, or one of his friends.