I'm at a client today. Getting here required getting a gypsy cab at 125th Street. The fare was $6. I told him "make it $8" and gave him a twenty. He gave me change and started to drive off. I looked in my hand and saw $17. He must have thought he gave me two fives, not a five and a ten. I could have jumped in the street and waved him down. Should I have?
Incidentally, this isn't the first time that this has happened. The third, in fact, and all three times with gypsy cabs.
Discuss...
Posted by mikewolf at November 15, 2004 12:16 PMYou've seen The Royal Tenenbaums, right? So is there really a company called Gypsy Cab (as in the movie), or is that a generic term for a freelance taxi or something?
Posted by: VC on November 16, 2004 10:37 PMLOL. I never made that connection to "Tennebaums." Gypsy cabs are. indeed, a generic term for non-metered cabs. They can't pick up street hails but sit in front of the train station @ 125th to pick up people. The politically correct term, I guess, is "livery" cabs.
Posted by: mrw on November 17, 2004 10:53 AMSounds like they ought to be called "The Non for Profit Taxis".
Posted by: Holly on November 19, 2004 11:39 AMOOPS-NOT for profit.
Posted by: Holly on November 19, 2004 11:39 AM