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Original poster

BRINGING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY

26 replies

Tobyjugg · 26/02/2015 16:27

But only for taxi drivers who want to talk politics/current affairs while they're driving you somewhere.

Can't cabbies realise that passengers don't give a shit about their views on any subject under the sun OTHER THAN getting us to our destination safely and by the shortest route.

I love London cabs where there's a partition between you and the driver.

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HeadFairy · 26/02/2015 16:28

surely it's a tradition, along with the casual racism/sexism/homophobia?

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Tobyjugg · 26/02/2015 16:34

As for traditions, so was bear baiting, burning witches and hanging, drawing and quartering but enough is enough.

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SoonToBeMrsB · 26/02/2015 16:38

I was in a cab when I was about 21 and the driver asked me about holidays. I told him that I was going to Lanzarote that summer and he started telling me about how he and his wife went to Lanzarote together and then she left him for another man the day they got back. He then got really stressed out telling me all the things he'd do to the guy if he saw him in the street Confused

NancyRaygun · 26/02/2015 16:41

Oh my God I LOVE cab drivers! Seriously, I have met some real diamonds. I love having a chat with them. You just've got a bad un thats all.

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Tobyjugg · 26/02/2015 16:47

If it was one bad'un I'd have no problem - it's just that I get this every time. I'm not in London BTW. Provincial cabbies are the pits (& you can't hail a cab in the street either. WTF!!)

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MaidOfStars · 26/02/2015 16:48

I like chatting with cab drivers.

VikingLady · 26/02/2015 16:51

A taxi driver told me a couple of years ago that chatting to the customers is a compulsory part of the nvq!

TellingTheBees · 26/02/2015 16:56

My local taxi firm have stickers in the cars saying they aren't allowed to talk abut politics or religion. The rule has only been broken by one driver so far who decided to quiz me on my thoughts about the afterlife and then told me I was going to hell.

var123 · 26/02/2015 17:01

I half expected to open this thread to read that you were proposing we dig jimmy Saville up and then hang him!

PrettyFeet · 26/02/2015 17:06

Blimey, you sound like a bundle of fun.

Gwenci · 26/02/2015 17:08

Yep, totally agree! I just want to to sit back in peace please.

While we're at it, can we also put a ban on mindless chit chat whilst I'm having my hair cut or having any kind of beauty treatment? Neither of these happen very often and on the rare occasions I do get my nails done I don't want to hear about the difficulty of your long-distance relationship Miss Beauty Therapist.

ineedabodytransplant · 26/02/2015 17:08

Can't do that around here. Most of them can't speak f**g English Grin

NancyRaygun · 26/02/2015 17:10

I think the London ones are more fun. Based on nothing more than my own limited experience!

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Tobyjugg · 26/02/2015 17:13

Pretty I've been called many things in my life but no one has ever called me "a bundle of fun". Grin

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PrettyFeet · 26/02/2015 17:16

I live in London and have to say I see it as a treat to hail a black cab. I get upset if they don't want a chat.

PrettyFeet · 26/02/2015 17:17

Tell me some of the other "things" you've been called then Grin

fattymcfatfat · 26/02/2015 17:18

nobone can beat me!
a few years ago I was off to a party, taxi driver perfectly reasonable, until he turned uo at my house with a bottle of vodka (unopened on the doorstep with a note Shock ) then he turned up on my 21st birthday and offered me booze! I laughed in his face and told him to feck off (he didnt know it was my bday) cheeky git remembered my address for 4 months!

Rafflesway · 26/02/2015 17:19

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LineRunner · 26/02/2015 17:21

A Newcastle taxi driver (black cab) once wouldn't let me out of the locked cab until he had finished telling me the story of an armed robbery his brother was involved in.

LineRunner · 26/02/2015 17:21

And he had a bad perm.

Chippednailvarnish · 26/02/2015 17:26

Mmm, I don't know if this is my inbuilt snobbery, but I've always found London's black cab drivers quite interesting. They have generally had to study for years to get their licence and it shows.

unlike New York cab drivers who can barely string a sentence together

HootOnTheBeach · 26/02/2015 17:27

I can't stand when they try to force conversation. My nose'll be buried in my phone and I will give one word answers and they will still insist on an interrogation!

xiaozhu · 27/02/2015 13:01

I once got a London cabbie who started to moan about 'all these immigrants' scrounging having lots of babies etc etc until I told him that my husband is what he'd class as an 'immigrant', and he looked embarrassed and said 'well you seem like a nice lady, your husband doesn't count'.

alsmutko · 27/02/2015 13:12

I go past the knowledge college every day and see them sitting there looking at their papers & practising 'so what do you think of this Nige Farridge then?'

Jessica147 · 27/02/2015 13:43

Try starting a conversation about something else. DSis used to ask every driver their favourite member of One Direction.