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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I honestly can't recall a ride when the driver WASN'T yapping away on his headset. Although I did tell a driver this morning (walking to work) that he needed to "lay off the fucking horn!"*

*yelling** at cabbies is great. What are they going to do, get out?

**I only do it when they deserve it.

Hurry back to bed, dear, your side is getting cold.

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large :-)

POTY

[SlaveNoMore]

Gattigap

So, while Paigow may not have a land-line, people can still reach out and touch her. Very comforting.

[dtb]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
And speaking of cellphone assholes, taxi drivers should not be allowed to chitchat while driving aggressively to turn over another fare. nobody should be allowed to talk and drive, but especially these assholes. i am going to start saying "I would tip you but I believe you put me at great risk by blabbering on the phone and only haveing one hand on the wheel and bieng unfocused", maybe that will learn em?

In TCOTU, the last time there was a taxi fare-hike, it was supposedly so that all taxis could have air-conditioning, and that there would be a "Taxi Rider's Bill of Rights" or some such nonsense that would set forth what the rules of the road (as it were) were. If the rules are not followed, refusing a tip was "permitted".

So, if a taxi didn't have a/c in the summer, I told the driver at the beginning of the ride that I wasn't going to give him a tip, but that I'd be happy to get out and hail another cab. I never got any complaints from the taxi drivers, and never once did one of them take me up on my offer to take a different cab.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Powerbooks and ibooks have been using the G4 chip for some time now.

Sorry, I meant G5. Those are only available in the desktop at the moment.

Be careful running a 2.4 ghz phone in the same environment as the aforementioned wireless network. They both operate in the same band and will cause interference. I suggest that you stick with 900 mhz.

Well, I said "high-frequency." We purchased a 5.8 gHz phone, thinking about that wireless network issue.

tm

Originally posted by dtb
In TCOTU, the last time there was a taxi fare-hike, it was supposedly so that all taxis could have air-conditioning, and that there would be a "Taxi Rider's Bill of Rights" or some such nonsense that would set forth what the rules of the road (as it were) were. If the rules are not followed, refusing a tip was "permitted".

So, if a taxi didn't have a/c in the summer, I told the driver at the beginning of the ride that I wasn't going to give him a tip, but that I'd be happy to get out and hail another cab. I never got any complaints from the taxi drivers, and never once did one of them take me up on my offer to take a different cab.

THe smell of a NYC cab in summer with no AC must be worse than the stench emanating from a bag of assholes. Butnothing like the stench of a year round DC gypsy cab.

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I hope you were careful to spill the contents of the Brazenette's diaper on said objet d'arte. (And I presume you paid the fare for the brazenette's seat.) Did you think to lie that you had a circulatory condition requiring you to stretch your legs out and therefore could have nothing under your seat blocking your legs for medical reasons? I don't think I've ever seen someone told they need to store someone else's shit under their own seat.

On a flight last year, my family was travelling ensemble, and we purchased tickets for the kids (even though one was young enough to be a "lap" kid.) So, I've got the yung'un in his car seat in the airplane seat, and it's a full flight So, the flight attendant asks if I've actually purchased a seat for the kid. I say yes, and she asks to see the kid's ticket. So I say (loudly) to my husband, "The flight attendant doesn't believe that we purchased the seat, so can you pass me the boarding card?" (Yes, I know, I'm a bitch -- so?)

She was all offended and shit that I said she didn't believe me -- and tried to explain away why she asked for the boarding pass. But she clearly didn't believe me, or she wouldn't have asked for proof. When I pointed that out to her, she just got angrier. I think she was angry that I wasn't getting all huffy -- just bitchy.

Now what kind of person doesn't buy a seat, but then puts a kid in it anyway? WTF? If anyone has done that on a full flight -- a curse on all your houses!

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I honestly can't recall a ride when the driver WASN'T yapping away on his headset. Although I did tell a driver this morning (walking to work) that he needed to "lay off the fucking horn!"*

*yelling** at cabbies is great. What are they going to do, get out?

**I only do it when they deserve it.

I fucking hate cabbies. They are the only class of people I say this about. Pieces of shit, one and (almost) all.

Once, I was crossing, with the light. A cab tried to make it across on yellow, even though there was no space for him to fit in on the next block. So, there he was, waiting for people to cross the street in front of him. Some space cleared up as I was crossing and he kept inching closer to me to speed me up. He got to within half an inch of my leg and I stopped and looked at him like, "one more inch, motherfucker and that's your ass." He went the extra inch and hit me.

I walked back around to the driver's side and smacked his glasses off his fucking face. He didn't get out.

TM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
THe smell of a NYC cab in summer with no AC must be worse than the stench emanating from a bag of assholes. Butnothing like the stench of a year round DC gypsy cab.

Tell me about it.

One time, my husband and I were late for a movie, so we took a short cab ride to the theater. The smell was something so foul, it transcends description. We were literally (no, LITERALLY) travelling like dogs with our heads out the window for some semblance of fresh air, as the stench was overwhelming.

It was a Spanish cab driver (from Spain) for those of you wondering (and I know you're out there...).

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I fucking hate cabbies. They are the only class of people I say this about. Pieces of shit, one and (almost) all.

Once, I was crossing, with the light. A cab tried to make it across on yellow, even though there was no space for him to fit in on the next block. So, there he was, waiting for people to cross the street in front of him. Some space cleared up as I was crossing and he kept inching closer to me to speed me up. He got to within half an inch of my leg and I stopped and looked at him like, "one more inch, motherfucker and that's your ass." He went the extra inch and hit me.

I walked back around to the driver's side and smacked his glasses off his fucking face. He didn't get out.

TM

I got knocked in the air at a crosswalk (I think I've mentioned this before) by a cab. It was raining. I pounded the driver's side window with my umbrella.

It's hard to feel like a man when you're hitting something with an umbrella.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I walked back around to the driver's side and smacked his glasses off his fucking face. He didn't get out.

You are soooo cute when you talk tough.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
[True-to-life description of the life-form known as NYC cab driver.]

I walked back around to the driver's side and smacked his glasses off his fucking face. He didn't get out.

So, he just went blithely along, driving without his glasses? Why am I not surprised?

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I got knocked in the air at a crosswalk (I think I've mentioned this before) by a cab. It was raining. I pounded the driver's side window with my umbrella.

It's hard to feel like a man when you're hitting something with an umbrella.

Ironically, I have been tempted to grab umbrellas pointing at weir angles from the hands of their clueless owners and whack on the head and tell them they were not intelligent enough to carry such weaponry. But I thought that would make me look too manly. I still fantasize about it on days where rain is forecasted or has just stopped while walkintg to the metro.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by dtb
Plane seat for child

What was she going to do if had NOT purchased a separate seat? Check your child? If they had a question they should have satisfied their curiosity before letting you board.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by dtb
In TCOTU, the last time there was a taxi fare-hike, it was supposedly so that all taxis could have air-conditioning, and that there would be a "Taxi Rider's Bill of Rights" or some such nonsense that would set forth what the rules of the road (as it were) were. If the rules are not followed, refusing a tip was "permitted".

So, if a taxi didn't have a/c in the summer, I told the driver at the beginning of the ride that I wasn't going to give him a tip, but that I'd be happy to get out and hail another cab. I never got any complaints from the taxi drivers, and never once did one of them take me up on my offer to take a different cab.

There's going to be another fare hike, about 25%, which is supposed to fund credit card machines in each cab. Goes into effect May 1.

They're also planning to auction off 900 new medalions over the next few years. Believe it or not, that's a 7.5% increase in the number of cabs in the city - and only the second new medallion issuance in 60+ years.