I had the pleasure of waiting a half hour for a cab on saturday night, and when he finally arrived I tried to be cordial and make conversation about the weather. He told me I had the smell of beer on me, in a none to friendly tone.I love being judged by people who stink of sweat. I guess I should be grateful that he was good enough to pick me up at all. My point is,FUCK YOU!!
YOU ARE A TAXI DRIVER!! . I’m just a guy who spent his saturday night watching Hockey and Soccer and drank a few beers.Literally!! I drank seven beers. Get a new job, you stupid prick.
I will go out of my way to never use that company again. But this is Hellifax, where you don’t have much of a choice anyway
—Cabless on the Street.
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.
We finally found a really nice cab driver and we tend to stick with him now. I try to avoid cabs though because I find a lot of them sketchy. But there are really nice ones out there!
Half hour for a cab? thats good for a saturday night
Ohh name the company name the company, or at least give an obvious hint, like, “Mellow Crab” or “Cab company named after a popular 1995 Martin Scorsese mafia movie, starring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci.”
You watched soccer at night, so I am guessing MLS? C’mon man, soccer is on in the mornings. Premiership.
This is a stupid bitch.
I agree with NGF, it’s really dumb.
If you stank of beer, that might have been enough to alert the taxi driver’s protective instincts toward his back seat upholstery. If you got in my backeseat reeking of beer, I’d be groaning too! And if you think seven beer constitutes “a few,” then I’d say being overly-sensitive isn’t your only problem. Maybe he’s had enough pukers in the back of his car that he’s permanently scarred. Anyway, assoles are everywhere but if you want to ban the cab company that employs this guy, go ahead but know it’s lame- you have just as much chance of having another bad experience with another taxi company, or with a waiter at your favorite restaurant, or the doctor employed at a certain hospital…or, or…..
Its also possible that the cab driver has had a history of being assaulted or ripped off by drunk passengers in the past. The point is: cab drivers, like any other business or service, reserve right to refuse service to a customer for whatever reason they choose.
And these guys work on the clock where time is the major factor; they’re not going to turn down fares for the fuck of it.
Also – maybe the residence you called to has a red-flag attached to it and the cab company is “shy” of returning to the location. It happens when people call and no-show or make the drivers wait unncecessarily long times. Seen it happen and heard them speak of it.
I have taken a lot of cabs in Halifax during my six years here and not once have I had a problem with any! When I was into my “raving days”, I’d get cabs while on other substances and they were more than accomodating but still reserved their safety. However, I’m not a threatening person and did not exhibit any serious effects that would make the driver refuse service to me.
OP – being an asshole doesn’t make you correct and it never will.
The cabs in thsi city are the fucking worst!! And that goes a long way given that I have travelled all over the world. Number one, half the time you cannot even get one to answer the phone. Then (I live in Dmouth) you finally get one and he does not want to take you to Dartmouth because he may lose out on a few more drunk fares downtown! The cops go on and on about drinking and driving (and rightly so) but there needs to be better options!! I used to take my car downtown and leave it if I had more than a couple of beers. I will not even do that now because after standing outside for an hour trying to get a cab, it is just too tempting to say “Fuck It” and drive home, especially when you have been drinking and are not making good judgement calls.
Honestly, I would be wasted (make that WASTED) after 7 beer…that’s the problem with our societal acceptance of consumption levels…7 is a few now. a few is two, a couple is three or at least that is what has been explained as the meaning of those words in a general sense, maybe it differs when applying those words to drinking…?
Being a cab driver is a dangerous business. A lot of them have been hurt (and at least one has been killed) by drunk passengers who refuse to pay up. I mean it sucks because honest (if hammered) people are lumped in with the dangerous ones, but I don’t really blame them anymore.
Although that doesn’t really excuse being a dick, I guess. I just understand why some of them are.
I used to live in HEllifax & when your out drinking & need to get home & your drunk (which is why you take a cab instead of driving yourself)…. make sure you have cab fare out in your hand when you get in.
SIMPLE
Let the Cab driver see that you have the cash to pay him ! The sight of MONEY is often all it takes to get your drunken ass home.
I also got to meet a couple of cab drivers who regularly worked in the evening & got their cell phone numbers & would try them directly before calling the cab companies. If the driver who has picked you up is on…he’ll say I can be there now, or be right there, or be able to get you in about 30 minutes…its not rocket surgery guy’s more like brain science, so use your brain & try one of these practicle ideas.
In spite of what you’ve seen on TV a cabbies job is not to be your pal you”chat about the weather to”. If you want courtesy get a limo.
Did anyone ever think that he was maybe drinking non-alcoholic beer, or mini-beers? Maybe he’s Andre the Giant.
A couple is 2, a few is 3. 7 beers (assuming these are normal beers) sounds like a lot to me.
Andre the Giant passed on in 1993 🙁
I’ve seen tons of drunk people looking for cabs treating the drivers like shit if they don’t take them. I’ve seen them throw shit at the car as they drive away. I’ve seen them run out in front of the cab to force them to stop, even the cabs that already have customers in them. And one night by Perks I witnessed some drunk guys yell “Fucking Chink!” at an Asian driver when he told them that they weren’t the people he was supposed to pick up.
Drunk people are stupid and there’s probably more to this story than OP lets on.
“Andre the Giant passed on in 1993 :(“
But his spirit lives on. Maybe the OP is Andre’s brother.