To think that driving like a complete knob when you're a taxi driver...

[DesperatelySeekingPomBears]

Is a bit fucking stupid as your boss's telephone number is displayed in a massive glowing box on your car roof?

Driving like a twat is obligatory if you're a taxi driver.

Did you not know that?

I think it's in the job description. Certainly seemed to be true of the taxi driver who took me to the hospital when I was in labour. He had the choice of a nice, straight road, but chose the one with 20 speed bumps. When I asked him to take the other route, he said this way was better for traffic. It was 3am.

Parking in the Parent and Child part of the supermarket car park when you are clearly a lone male in a van with your employee's phone number emblazoned down the side could definitely be construed as a career-limiting move...especially if someone were to call said employer to complain

Employer's number not employee's...

In my town it is compulsory for taxi drivers to drive off at speed before anyone has put their seatbelt on and sometimes even actually closed the doors.

...and sit in the middle of a residential road and honk until the passenger emerges. At 10pm. Under no circumstances should a taxi driver bother to get out and ring a doorbell, oh no.

Definately compulsory.

The bloody idiot that picked us up last night drove while the bloody door was WIDE open with my children in the back, I reported him and gave him a right telling off.

It was one of those cab type one's that a pram etc. can wheel into. I put the 3 children into the back and turned round to pick up the bags and he drove off.

Fair enough it was to move out someone's way and turn around but he could have told me so I could have closed the bloody door at least.

To be fair if you've ever been scared in a British taxi get in a Thai or Jamaican one. Or any foreign taxi for that matter. Nearly wet myself.