Things to say to taxi drivers

[mrchips]

I'm sure we've all experianced daunting journeys with hard looking taxi drivers. It's often polite to make light chat with them but it seems they get asked the same lines all the time? What soft of typical "taxi driver talk" do you say?

Examples, and some of my favourites:

"Are you busy tonight ?"
"What time are you working to?"
"Whats the Octavias like to drive ?"
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[Dazza Blade]

"Hi.
How much is it gonna be?
Keep the change.
Thanks.
Bye."

That should be sufficient.

[Dragonfly]

"well going anywhere nice tonight"

you got a bf"?

i know your face from somewhere?

your one them mcveighs!

i know your family, i remember the time.........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

jezzz thats some weather!

so where are you for then?

did you hear the craic about the town? your man from up the road.............




(same thing everytime, and they know everything they better than the local newspaper here)
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[flat spot]

"Please STFU. I'm pissed and all I want to do is go home to bed/die"

"That's outrageous. You don't actually expect me to pay that much do you?"

"Everyone fucking leg it !!!"

"If Pakistanis don't believe in Christmas, why are you charging double the fare?"

"What does this button do?" press press "and this one?"
press press press

"I think I'm gonna be sick."

[FreshAL]

"You know that light was red right?"
"Have you been taking drugs?"
"That's it, lemme out, I'll walk from here"

True story, turns out the guy had been taking acid the night before


Pretty rare any of 'em round here speak enough english to have a chat anyway.

[SAS]

yeh can we just stop for a piss break ( sound of running, taxi driver shouting, get back)

yeh can you just stop so i can go the ATM ( sound of running, taxi driver shouting, get back)

[lozzypop1]

Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?


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[Dragonfly]

jut relised i done my the wrong way round i done what the driver says to me. i got dunce hat on today big time.

usually dont say much to driver apart form answer his questions and slag off bad drivers.
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[dodsi]

"y'all right"

"been busy"

"what time you on till'"



True Peter kay style

[Misc]

Why do they have there radio's turned down so you can barley hear it, & it's always on some Jazz station. very relaxing.

[andrea]

My worst taxi experience was on my 25th bday, went to wolverhampton from stafford. With my pissed up sis and her b/f on way back get quote of £20. He stops so ben can puke, then stops for petroel, end of journey he tries to charge £25. Now i thought at this point that ben had already given him £20, so we point blank refuse to give him anymore (Ben didn't pay anything). End result, he locked us in the cab outside our house, so we're banging on the windows "let me out, we're being kidnapped" in true pissed up style. My sis calls the police from her mobile and tells them the taxi driver won't let us out. Two police cars and a riot van later we're all nicked, handcuffed the lot. Taken to the station where there's no cells left so they gave us a ride back home. Something like this happens everytime i go out with them

But yeah "What time did you start?" "what time you on till?" "Been busy?" "I bet everyone asks you this don't they?"

[SAS]

we paid £130 in taxi fees tonite

[tony532]

usually make light banter about being a biker if i'm being chauffeured home from work for free.

they usually waffle on about how they used to be bikers back in the day and kept getting knocked off so gave it up.

this doesnt supprise me though as most of them drive like an 80 year old.
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[mrchips]

Best one I was with claimed he used to be a top DJ in Northern Ireland, he was best mates with DJ Tiesto and Gleave Dobbin.
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[Redliner]

On the flip side being a taxi driver, I can say the most popular ones are:

"What time you start/finish?"

"Been busy?"

"Is this you're only job?"

"What car's this then?"



My favourite is:

"You're not trying to take the long route are you"
Why would I do that? I thought you were a s**t c**t anyway so I was just gonna overcharge you any which way I go.

Close second is:
"You look young for a cab driver"
Well I'm not actually a cabbie, I just nicked this from some old c**t 'cause I needed some dough for smack. Ever been 120mph in a 30 zone?
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[Dragonfly]

[Itchy]

be nice to them or be quiet,

Taxi drivers more often than not have a button under the steering wheel which they press to up the fare if they have somebody in the back they don't like.

Either that or they will take the scenic route or stop for yellow lights (that said there was a formula for taxi drivers saying it was best for them to get lots of short fares as the std fee was more profitable than anything else).
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[Dragonfly]

to be fair it was for 14 superheroes and required 3 taxi`s[/quote]

i dread to ask about the superhero now
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[SAS]

i was rambo

[Flip]

John Rambo wasn't a super hero.

[Mozzer]

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[SAS]