Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Belker on March 05, 2019, 06:08:28 am
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I had a fare One night, it was after midnight on a Wednesday night, a drunk approx 55 year old man sits in carrying a big takeaway bag from the local chipper, he is well steamed but he gives me his address and I drive him there. The fare is a Tenner and he puts his chip bag on the floor and roots out a mountain of coins from his pocket, he drunkenly counts out the Tenner in coins and hands it to me whilst dropping more coins on the floor, he picks up his chip bag and very drunkenly exits the cab, once out of the cab he drops all the remaining coins on the side of the road and walks off in to his home. I drive off up to the end of the cul-de-sac, do a U-turn and drive back down to see all his dropped coins on the roadside, yer-man-o is gone off in home pissed as a coot and as it's after midnight there is not a soul in sight.
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So what should I do ?
Option 1; Stop, pick up and pocket the coins and say nothing.
Option 2; Stop, pick up the coins and knock at yer-man-o's door to return them.
Option 3; Drive away and forget about it.
Option 4; Stop, pick up the coins and bring them to the Garda station giving them the pax address.
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Option 1 , obviously he left them there to cover the tip
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5.Piss in his letterbox...and pick the coins up on your way back to the car.....and bring them to the Garda Stn.
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I always hate when I have a fare and I hear them rooting for coins instead of notes.I always feel like I didnt get a fare at all
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5.Piss in his letterbox...?
barricade the back door and pour gallons of petrol into his letterbox and lite it.....
Pick up all the coins and wen he's jumping out the window on fire... Throw them at him.....
Won't fukin do that again now will he
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5.Piss in his letterbox...?
barricade the back door and pour gallons of petrol into his letterbox and lite it.....
Pick up all the coins and wen he's jumping out the window on fire... Throw them at him.....
Won't fukin do that again now will he
Hal & Ochy, must remember to pay you's in notes if I ever have the pleasure
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5.Piss in his letterbox...?
barricade the back door and pour gallons of petrol into his letterbox and lite it.....
Pick up all the coins and wen he's jumping out the window on fire... Throw them at him.....
Won't fukin do that again now will he
Hal & Ochy, must remember to pay you's in notes if I ever have the pleasure
Pleasure? lol
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5.Piss in his letterbox...?
barricade the back door and pour gallons of petrol into his letterbox and lite it.....
Pick up all the coins and wen he's jumping out the window on fire... Throw them at him.....
Won't fukin do that again now will he
Hal & Ochy, must remember to pay you's in notes if I ever have the pleasure
Pleasure? lol
Ok misfortune then
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Option 1 , obviously he left them there to cover the tip
Yea, that's what I thought too !
It was either that or Option 3, but it bugged me to think of some Hi-vis jacketed power walker getting the booty the next morning.
22.40 all in between the dropped coins in the cab and on the roadside, C:-)
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I always hate when I have a fare and I hear them rooting for coins instead of notes.I always feel like I didnt get a fare at all
I agree with that but still it's nice when you fuel up and pay fer it all with coins, it's like getting Free Fuel !
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I hope you're gonna declare that tip!!
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oops
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The fact that you did the U turn is proof that the only option in your mind was Number 1 and then return to pick up what he left on the ground
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The fact that you did the U turn is proof that the only option in your mind was Number 1 and then return to pick up what he left on the ground
The taxi industry is not in a good place if drivers have to resort to robbing men that had a few too many scoops.
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Dropped money is dropped money, if he wasn't bothered to pick it then it wasn't worth anything to him
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You got paid.
Move on.
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Dropped money is dropped money, if he wasn't bothered to pick it then it wasn't worth anything to him
In all fairness the man was pissed and was taken advantage of.
Any decent driver would have helped him pick it up.
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Dropped money is dropped money, if he wasn't bothered to pick it then it wasn't worth anything to him
In all fairness the man was pissed and was taken advantage of.
Any decent driver would have helped him pick it up.
Karmas a bitch.
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There's nothing below "below" to check? I bet there's no immigrants on the list, wherever the list may be...
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January of Driver of the Month.
"Hi there,
I'd like to send a message of thanks to my driver Colm. I was driving my boyfriend to his exam when I got a flat tyre. I ordered a taxi so he could get to the exam on time and Colm came and saved the day! Not only did my boyfriend make the exam with time to spare, but Colm even came back to check that I was ok and whether I needed any help.
12/10 service from Colm, an absolute gentleman! If you can, please send on my thanks!
All the best,
Niamh and Nik"
February of Driver of the Month.
“Dear My Taxi
I just wanted to say thank you to Glenn (I didn't catch his badge number) for his outstanding service this morning.
Literally, as soon as I hit the button and ordered he was with me he was on the ball the car was smart and clean and he gave me good advice and a handy tip for getting picked up from Dublin airport next time by My Taxi.
I've used my Taxi before and this guy is a credit to you. So if you see him tell him I said thanks again legend.
Richard"
Huge shout out to Glenn and Colm - for receiving this feedback, and we’re sending them a €50 one4all voucher each.
Thank you for being the Driver Heroes of January and February!
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January of Driver of the Month.
"Hi there,
I'd like to send a message of thanks to my driver Colm. I was driving my boyfriend to his exam when I got a flat tyre. I ordered a taxi so he could get to the exam on time and Colm came and saved the day! Not only did my boyfriend make the exam with time to spare, but Colm even came back to check that I was ok and whether I needed any help.
12/10 service from Colm, an absolute gentleman! If you can, please send on my thanks!
All the best,
Niamh and Nik"
February of Driver of the Month.
“Dear My Taxi
I just wanted to say thank you to Glenn (I didn't catch his badge number) for his outstanding service this morning.
Literally, as soon as I hit the button and ordered he was with me he was on the ball the car was smart and clean and he gave me good advice and a handy tip for getting picked up from Dublin airport next time by My Taxi.
I've used my Taxi before and this guy is a credit to you. So if you see him tell him I said thanks again legend.
Richard"
Huge shout out to Glenn and Colm - for receiving this feedback, and we’re sending them a €50 one4all voucher each.
Thank you for being the Driver Heroes of January and February!
Fcuk putting the rest of us to shame, I think i'll still be a nasty cnut , not worth €50 to be nice
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As I suspected, not an immigrant among them... yet it's the immigrants they showcase in their wireless advertisements.
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Colm and Glen sound like stalkers.For every happy review they got they probably left 50 customers feeling uncomfortable...
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Colm and Glen sound like stalkers.For every happy review they got they probably left 50 customers feeling uncomfortable...
They could be part of the "Holy 180" dressed up as Irish Law Abiding Taxi drivers with False white tan
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Colm and Glen sound like stalkers.For every happy review they got they probably left 50 customers feeling uncomfortable...
I think most of the stalkers are immigrants.
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January of Driver of the Month.
"Hi there,
I'd like to send a message of thanks to my driver Colm. I was driving my boyfriend to his exam when I got a flat tyre. I ordered a taxi so he could get to the exam on time and Colm came and saved the day! Not only did my boyfriend make the exam with time to spare, but Colm even came back to check that I was ok and whether I needed any help.
12/10 service from Colm, an absolute gentleman! If you can, please send on my thanks!
All the best,
Niamh and Nik"
February of Driver of the Month.
“Dear My Taxi
I just wanted to say thank you to Glenn (I didn't catch his badge number) for his outstanding service this morning.
Literally, as soon as I hit the button and ordered he was with me he was on the ball the car was smart and clean and he gave me good advice and a handy tip for getting picked up from Dublin airport next time by My Taxi.
I've used my Taxi before and this guy is a credit to you. So if you see him tell him I said thanks again legend.
Richard"
Huge shout out to Glenn and Colm - for receiving this feedback, and we’re sending them a €50 one4all voucher each.
Thank you for being the Driver Heroes of January and February!
The industry standard-bearers of the future............this is what'l be expected of all when social credits become the norm......bad citizen or good mong...you choose.
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The fact that you did the U turn is proof that the only option in your mind was Number 1 and then return to pick up what he left on the ground
Stay up MT, It was a cul-de-sac !
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Donut boy on the way to buy another box as we speak..
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mytaxi Driver Heroes
We’re two months into 2019! So it’s time to get in gear and celebrate all the positive feedback that we have received from Passengers - so far this year!
It’s fantastic when your Passengers take the time to share their feedback from their mytaxi journey with us. They may not always remember their driver's name, so it's important that we recognise those that do!
From helping with a flat tyre, getting them to their exams, returning lost house keys and mobile phones, to providing an overall exceptional service and making mytaxi Passengers - Happy Customers! Check the Driver Heroes for January and February below.
Holy fukin jayzus........ Is that real??????? ??? :o......
Helping them with their puchtures?????
Fuk off.... I didn't invent Sexual equality..... But I'm certainly going to fukin live by it.....
I fix mine and you fix yours......
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Colm and Glen sound like stalkers.For every happy review they got they probably left 50 customers feeling uncomfortable...
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Yea I can smell perverts...... He was probably looking up her skirt wen he was changing the wheel and her standing there pretending and asking him why it's only flat on the bottom wit a smirk on her face..... Wen she took off he probably jumped over the wall and robbed the knickers off her washing line
Dirty cnut
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It's the Day drivers who get all the credit, cos what we do by night is all forgotten the next day !!
Excerpt from Taxi Diaries;
Chapter 34. The Flood and the Ice-month.
The floods came to Cork on the evening of 25th November 2009, it was a Thursday night, which is the student party night on the western side of the city. It had been raining heavily all day and a high tide to boot, by 11pm Victoria cross was well flooded, I was cruising for taxi-business in the area and I saw this Boy-Racer in a huge Hi-Lux 4x4 white jeep go flying through the flood in Victoria cross, it was something you would see on the 'Jungle-River' splash-slide at the Funfare, with water splashing up for Twenty meters on either side, much to the amusement of the student population who were all heading into town for the late nite clubs and the Boy-racer got a huge cheer from the crowd.
The city continued to flood for the rest of the night and we were getting regular warning from the base radio on areas to avoid, eventually it was to avoid every quay in the city. My last fare of the night (about 3am) came from a young polite male student, who told me his female friend was unwell (drunk) and would I take her home to the Model farm road if he and his mate accompanied her, so I agreed and the Four of us set off, she was living a few hundred yards beyond the old tennis village (now Eden hall, student accommodation).
The young girl didn't seem very sick or overly drunk but she was very dozy and sleepy and she passed out on her friends lap as soon as she sat into the taxi. We got just beyond the tennis village and onto the small bridge on the Model Farm road to Ballincollig but the bridge was Flooded and Under-Water, we made a brief effort to attempt to drive through it, but it was soon lapping at the doors and we retreated quickly, all of a sudden Waves starting appearing on top of the flood waters and lights were coming against us, it was a farmer in a huge tractor easily wading through the floods.
I hopped out of the Taxi and stood in the middle of the road and stopped the tractor, I told him of my predicament, that the young girl was unwell and that she lives a few hundred yards on the other side of the flood waters, I asked the farmer would he take her and her companions across the water safely to her home, he agreed with a nod of his head, the gallant young student lad insisted on paying me a Tenner for the fare and I helped load the Three of them into the tractor cabin and away they went, safely home through the Floodwaters.
Car 16, I will always get you home !
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You're a ledge Ken.
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Deserves a medal
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It's the Day drivers who get all the credit, cos what we do by night is all forgotten the next day !!
Excerpt from Taxi Diaries;
Chapter 34. The Flood and the Ice-month.
The floods came to Cork on the evening of 25th November 2009, it was a Thursday night, which is the student party night on the western side of the city. It had been raining heavily all day and a high tide to boot, by 11pm Victoria cross was well flooded, I was cruising for taxi-business in the area and I saw this Boy-Racer in a huge Hi-Lux 4x4 white jeep go flying through the flood in Victoria cross, it was something you would see on the 'Jungle-River' splash-slide at the Funfare, with water splashing up for Twenty meters on either side, much to the amusement of the student population who were all heading into town for the late nite clubs and the Boy-racer got a huge cheer from the crowd.
The city continued to flood for the rest of the night and we were getting regular warning from the base radio on areas to avoid, eventually it was to avoid every quay in the city. My last fare of the night (about 3am) came from a young polite male student, who told me his female friend was unwell (drunk) and would I take her home to the Model farm road if he and his mate accompanied her, so I agreed and the Four of us set off, she was living a few hundred yards beyond the old tennis village (now Eden hall, student accommodation).
The young girl didn't seem very sick or overly drunk but she was very dozy and sleepy and she passed out on her friends lap as soon as she sat into the taxi. We got just beyond the tennis village and onto the small bridge on the Model Farm road to Ballincollig but the bridge was Flooded and Under-Water, we made a brief effort to attempt to drive through it, but it was soon lapping at the doors and we retreated quickly, all of a sudden Waves starting appearing on top of the flood waters and lights were coming against us, it was a farmer in a huge tractor easily wading through the floods.
I hopped out of the Taxi and stood in the middle of the road and stopped the tractor, I told him of my predicament, that the young girl was unwell and that she lives a few hundred yards on the other side of the flood waters, I asked the farmer would he take her and her companions across the water safely to her home, he agreed with a nod of his head, the gallant young student lad insisted on paying me a Tenner for the fare and I helped load the Three of them into the tractor cabin and away they went, safely home through the Floodwaters.
Car 16, I will always get you home !
Ken, maybe your better off buying a tractor to accomodate your clients
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Ken, maybe your better off buying a tractor to accomodate your clients
Yea ! And a Trailer and a Pitchfork to load and unload 'em ! lol
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The Wurzels song just came into my head then!!
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Ooh Aar, Ooh Aar....I'd say more Richie Kavanagh....
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Ooh Aar, Ooh Aar....I'd say more Richie Kavanagh....
Nah....he's just fukin creepy.....even doin ads for Mattress Mick....."doesn't matter bout the fancy headboard...it's the mattress does the trick!!"