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Taxis work the same way in New Jersey and Long Island, at least from the rail stations. The pick-up more than one person and fee is based on the distance, usually town boarders. When I lived in Jersey I would get off a block away from my house because is was in the next town. I would save $1.00.
I’ve shared a cab during weird times, like the transit strike, but I’m chary to intrude or be intruded upon. One time I actually picked up two men in my car and drove them somewhere. I still think that that was sort of nuts.
One night, maybe 7pm or so, I had finished shopping at Fairway and stopped to get some cash at a Chase right off Columbia Street (sort of deserted there). There were two hispanic men looking at maps and looking for a theater. We spoke in Spanish — they were tourists from Guatemala, I think — and they were clearly lost and we determined that they had put Manhattan directions into a Brooklyn search engine and wound up in the butt end of nowhere looking for a small Spanish theater on the lower East side. It was cold and there was no nearby subway (they had walked some assine distance to get to these nowhere coordinates) and so I drove them to Brooklyn Heights to get the subway back into Manhattan.
They were profusely grateful to me and I guess I sensed that they were nice people, but I still think…..that was a little nuts…
“Have any of you ever had sex in a NYC cab??? Or done something our ex-president has defined as not being “sexual relations.””
No, but I bet you’re going to say you have! : P
“Have any of you ever had sex in a NYC cab???”
Mrs. C said she wanted to have sex in the back seat of a car…and she wanted me to drive!
*said in my best Rodney Dangerfield voice*
“The way taxis work in Seoul late at night is that they can pick up additional people along the way…very bizarre system.â€
that’s what the taxis did here during the MTA Transit strike in 05 (06?)
DCB,
wow, divorce sounds like a sucky proposition.
I’ve always heard that the bias is usually against the male.
I’d better get some chocolates and flowers before the end of the weekend. :o(
“The way taxis work in Seoul late at night is that they can pick up additional people along the way…very bizarre system.â€
Sames in Ghana. It’s called a line car – people can flag a cab or alight anywhere along the route. Set fee no matter the distance so long as on the same line. I guess that would make it like a bus – but no designated stops.
“biff,
I can’t imagine you being mean to a lady in distress.”
She was in a business suit; she wasn’t wearing dat dress.
Have any of you ever had sex in a NYC cab??? Or done something our ex-president has defined as not being “sexual relations.”