"Taxi Drivers, Have You Ever Had A ""FOLLOW THAT CAR"" Moment? (r/AskReddit)"

taxi drivers all read it have you ever had to follow that car did you catch the car what happened next not a cab driver but while in s career me and my buddies from my unit took my wife to the airport after she came to visit heading back we decided to grab cabs instead of the bus or train and there there were bullet cab drivers these guys look like something out of the bad drifters movie and our rumored to be ex insert crazy professional armed escort type driver titles here well there were two men in others for one cab so we grabbed two of them our driver looked at me and my two buddies at guts in his cab and asked if we want to be then they're bad why not okay I've seen combat on three tours I've been a smokejumper I've done crazy stuff but turning what was usually about an hour's trip into 15 20 minutes of drifting through red lights sideways to merge with other traffic at 80 - 90 plus using sidewalks and generally riding through something that only belongs in a video game was one of the most insane adrenaline pumping things I have ever done and would probably do a game and yes we won by about 20 seconds just enough time for the driver to yell at us to jump out jump out get on hood all relaxed like we've been here for our upvote for the last sentence often I'd get people hopping in and saying just follow that cab without giving any real destination they just had too many people in their group for one taxi that's not exciting but one night I picked up four guys having a bachelor party and one had left their phone in a taxi earlier and the day and had been tracking it using another's phone 45 minutes of speeding all over the city cutting taxes off that might be the one with the phone while four grown men hop out of my car in the middle of traffic and swarm the unsuspecting drivers to inquire about the missing phone must have scared the heck out of them we finally found it the meter said $60.00 they gave me 120 dollars not the most exciting story but definitely the most fun fair I've ever had not a taxi driver but a similar situation I was taking a train to see my then girlfriend now wife perform in a play at her University it was the closing night with and ceremonial flowers after then train got delayed by like 45 minutes something was on the tracks once we finally made it I went running out of the train station looking for any taxi I see a taxi van I run up out of breath and say how quickly can you get me to the University and what's the cost he's like 15 minutes of this traffic probably like $8 to $12 can you make it any faster I can try this is my last pickup I've got like $30 on me if you can do it in five minutes all right while turning the wheel straight he looks at me and is like you should probably put on a fricking seat belt then floors the gas in Vegas once we asked our cab driver what was the shortest ride he had ever given he said he drove a very elderly man from the front off Caesars Palace to the back the man had just gambled away his wedding ring and didn't want to walk through the casino in case he ran into his wife such a short story so sad I picked up a guy across town and take him to the airport and just as we get there he Pat's his pockets and says Oh sh t my passport is on the kitchen table he asks if I could get him home and back again before his flight I say maybe he says how about an extra $20 over the meter we made it before his plane left but he never rode with me again it's because he was on the laser flight 370 I was working as cabbie Australia and about 20 seconds after the front cab had pulled away two guys got in and said follow that cab I pulled off did so and once we were into traffic asked why and they said they had his wallet and he was flying out of the country that morning so they wanted to get it to him immediately I contemplated briefly how far it might be and if it was going to be a big fare but my good nature got the better of me and I pulled out my phone and called my friend and college colleague who was driving the other cab and got him to pull over we were both still in the same street and I had pretty much dick Tovar myself since it was a slow night and I could expect at least an hour's way to get to the front of the rank again they tipped me five books on affair that was tariffs plus about 20 cents which was nice of them the second time it happened the single guy in my cab was getting me to tale a private car and I didn't like the feel of him so I intentionally lost the target he didn't tip me but I didn't give much of a crap I was just happy to have him out of my taxi when I was in the Navy one of our port calls was in the Philippines we had the curfew to get back to the ship before they closed the brow at midnight and we'd get in trouble for coming back late we wouldn't be allowed off the ship the next two days we were in port and we wouldn't be allowed overnight Liberty for our next port call we caught a cab it looked like we weren't going to make it back on time so I offered our taxi driver 20 dollars to get us there with at least five minutes to spate he looked in the mirror his eyes lit up and narrowed just as quickly suddenly the three lanes of traffic had a fourth he was weaving in and out of other cars and you would have thought this guy was driving the Grand Prix this was going from Makati to Manila the capital and traffic was pretty heavy even near midnight I thought we were going to die but we made it back on time so he got $20 but afterward I found out that $20 is a pretty good sum of money in the Philippines so hopefully it really helped him out we had been hanging out at the Hard Rock Cafe in Makati and our ship was picking us up near the Mall of Asia so it wasn't really that far other drive but we completely lost track of time because we'd all be drinking that driver and his $20 as far as I'm concerned that sounds entirely like driving Mumbai except three lanes of traffic somehow have seven lanes but if you ever find yourself constipated in India rare just get in a car for 30 seconds it'll fix you right up some friends and I took separate cabs and I jokingly stated we were looking to get there before the other people dude started driving in the frickin city bike lane knick cab drivers don't freak around I am NOT a taxi driver however I did have a legitimate reason to jump into a cab and yell at the driver follow that cab I was at a bachelor party in Chicago we all met at Emily's or O'Toole's one of the other thousand Irish bars to watch a pay-per-view boxing match and get hammered then we went to another spot at the other spot we knew the bar manager and they were hooking us up with shot after shot the groom was getting trashed super trashed he ended up dancing with some girl and kind of making out with her on the dance floor all of this would have been okay if it weren't for the fact that two of the groomsmen were brothers of the bride they were not cool with watching their future brother-in-law make out with some Rando bar chick so they dong blocked him one brother went up to her friends and had them remove a girl the rest of us went up to her buddy and dragged him off of the dance floor this pee off the groom big-time he's such a giant baby seriously I don't even talk to this sucker anymore this night isn't 100% y but it certainly played a factor in removing him from my life he was belligerent our groups auto-tuned him out and continued playing beer pong in this bar a little bit goes by and out of the corner of my eye I see him stumble out of the bar and out into the street I was both the only one who noticed and the only one who seemed to care when I pointed it out to the others they just shrugged and kept playing I walked outside to get him just in time to see him hop into a cab and take off down the block I jumped into another cab and screamed follow that cab I should have left that sucker go off on his own what happens next was frickin ridiculous this dude goes to another bar down on Rush Street miles away from where we were I catch up with him as he goes in and starts stealing other people's drinks off the bar when their backs are turned now his fiance starts blowing up my phone and is screaming at me to return her future husband I try to explain to her that I didn't run off with him that I was the only one keeping an eye on him but she wouldn't listen and somehow I was a butthole I ended up getting into a bar fight with this guy and we got kicked out now we are miles from our hotel room and I didn't even know which hotel we were staying at since I met them all at the bar and this dude was too drunk to relay any useful information hours go by and finally one of my other friends finally catches up to us and we navigate our way back to the hotel deposit the groom and the lobby and instead of staying I hop an early train back home trick these guys and that's the story of how I jumped into a cab and screamed follow that cab I really wish I hadn't think about how few people get to say follow that cab in their lifetime you my friend have unwittingly experienced a bucket list item of millions I used to be a taxi driver a few years ago in a smaller town in CA one of the most popular things to do in this town was get P drunk at one of the few bars in town and I made decent money by getting drunk people home every night one night in particular around last call I had picked up a group that above that was headed to an after party to continue their booths filled adventure with several cars following to the new spot once we get to the new party spot an apartment complex of all places and my passengers vacate I notice a large crowd all converging quickly toward the entrance of the complex knowing some crap was about to go down I made my way toward the entrance and positioned myself in a way I could see what was going on but could easily get out of there if I needed to apparently before I had picked up my fare there had been some words exchanged or some drama Bulls at the bar a couple car loads of angry and offended bar Geller's had followed the convoy to the new party spot and intended to continue whatever happened at the bar fight breaks out some dudes getting punched while sitting in his truck had to be about thirty people getting involved and for some reason everyone just jumped out of their cars and left them running with the doors opened before engaging in all-out fistfights during all this craziness I notice a dude run across the street and jump into somebody else's Infiniti g35 and this is where crap got unreal for me the guy throws it in reverse and slams into three separate parked cars I'm thinking Frick he's going to hit me and quickly back out of the way and he flips around with half the car hanging and starts to take off owner of the car starts running down the street after him and I'm like Frick I have to chase this guy so I flip around and try to catch up to him as safely as I could he was pulled over right around the corner possibly reflecting on what had just happened and I was immediately calling 9 1 during the call he started driving again and I started following eventually he realized what I was doing and started driving recklessly in residential areas and I wasn't about to get hurt or have any further damage done so I backed off but not even a minute later police were swarming the area and they had him pulled over and in custody so now I didn't have like a James Bond passenger jump in my taxi and tell me to follow that car but I did have a crazy but moment where I felt compelled to follow a car because I thought it was the right thing to do anytime people ask me if I've seen crazy crap as a taxi driver I tell then either this story or the one about the four girls and the strip club mix up that night sucked TL DR chased down a drunk guy that still some dudes nice car during a fistfight after he hit three parked cars followed it to a house lady passenger told me to wait and proceeded to get out and intercept her husband who was going to his second family he looked completely caught and guilty she just stared daggers at him and got back in the taxi and told me to drive whereupon she told me WTF was going on and I gave her a free 30-minute ride home no physical favors there was a part of me that hoped to see my friends story in here I would love the drivers prospective oh well my friend was on the bus heading home after a few drinks when walking around he keeps his wallet in his back pocket but it's uncomfortable when he sits so he takes it out and places it on the seat by his leg his stop comes up and he gets off the moment the bus closes its door and calls aways when he realizes that he forgot his wallet surprise surprise he hails a cab and explains his situation to the driver baddest driver takes off after the bus okay I'm embellishing the bus was only two stops up from where he got off the driver pulls in front of the bus just as it was about to pull away friend runs in asks if anyone has seen a wallet some guy sighs and takes it out of his jacket pocket victory friend paid the cabbie with all the cash he had which was something upwards of 40 plus bucks not really the situation Opie is describing but back when I was driving a cab I witnessed a drive-by shooting from behind the shooters Impala I called the police and followed them at a distance until police knew about where to start looking and closing the net so to speak but I must have followed them for a good 10 minutes before I was told by the dispatcher that a cop had eyes on the car and it was cool to stop following them tell me more I tried this once in Spain in a drunken stupor I left my wallet in the cab I just got out of hailed the next cat I saw driving my direction and told him follow that cab dude went five kilometres under the speed limit and allowed the cab to get away worried about police I gave him the opportunity of a lifetime and I never saw my wallet again Lo and you couldn't pay I told my cab driver to follow a car on numerous occasions mostly because our fault my friends were in the other cab but that's not the point I've never gotten weird stares it's not that weird to ask people just assume it's like this I have been a cab driver for a short while and never had anything similar to what you see in movies or TV here's as close as I've been though I have been that car that had to be followed it was a call for a large group which obviously wouldn't fit into my one car so dispatch called for two cars I was the first to arrive not yet knowing that I was going to be one off two cars when I pulled up the PAC's explained to me that they needed one more car and I called dispatch and they said another car was only a couple minutes away but so basically the cool kids of the group got into my car and we turned up the music while we waited for the other cab when he showed up they told me what area they were going but wanted suggestions for what bars or clubs to go to because they were visiting from out of town the other driver was knew and had no clue of how to get to our destination or what clubs were there so they followed me very anticlimactic I know but that's as close as I can get while still being honest not a cab driver but one time my girlfriend texted me she would be alone at home for an hour and a half 'but i lived ten kilometres away and i didn't have a ride just then can pulls up and i asked for a ride i tell the guy if he can make a ten killing me to trip in under ten minutes I'd pay him 80% over and above the fare as a tip Duke knew what was up and frickin floored I T literally burnt rubber six minutes flat totally worth it so this story was from my dad when he was in Paterson he was around 20-30 in the 80s driving along he sees a dau shoe bag steal an old lady's purse jump into his car and speed off without a moment's hesitation my father took off after him speeding down Paterson streets cops finally noticed the two cars and then started going after my father my dad pointed in the direction of the other car trying to signal the police but it wasn't till they started turning that the cops noticed the other car as the thief dumped the purse out the car the cop speeds past my dad my dad starts catching up to the other car the car is about to make it to the Parkway the cop speeds ahead right my dad goes left and they cut him off in a v-shape before he gets off the exit cut to inside the precinct my dad gives his story cops thanked him and the old woman comes in she walks up to my dad and as sweet as pie asks him why did you steal my purse all his Thunder was gone after that she was senile and even gave the cops a hard time hence no good deed goes unpunished I was in a San Francisco taxi about 30 years ago the hills there are wild we mentioned and sort of requested that he drive like the flight seems in the old TV show the streets off San Francisco he did we screamed bloody murder and glee and fear loving every minute of it obviously he probably did not own his own taxi we took an uber ride home after a night at the bar hurling out of the parking lot a car backed into our dryers car our driver said oh heck no and went to get out of the car to check damage and whatnot well the other car a Jeep took off over the curb to get away our driver went in hot pursuit mode and the four of us were along for the ride we were on the phone with the police when the jeep pulled into a parking lot over out of business restaurant as we went to chase behind the building the Jeep hit a huge pothole and just kept on going there was no way out car could make it so our chase ended there cops showed up about five minutes later and took statements from all of us they ended up catching the other drive I guess but it was a crazy event to be a part of a tldr yuba driver chased someone who hit us with us trapped in the car one time a few of my friends and I were late for a concert we got into a cab in Vancouver asked the cab driver how fast he could get us to the venue and smiled and replied depends how many people you want me to kill on the way there it was the best taxi ride ever he ripped it blasted music and let us drink in the cab yes it was years ago Styx was doing the mr. Roboto to her at the city center in New York City my friends and I were big fans and after the concert we asked a cabdriver to follow their limo he agreed and we sat back to enjoy what we thought would be a wild ride the limo drove right around the corner to the Russian Tea Room it was the shortest ride in history we did get autographs so that was cool yes it was during a driving lesson I was spotted at a light fully in my lane when the light turned green the guy next to me went past and knocked off my mirror my instructor was an ex-cop and had me speed rolled down my window and flag him down finally got him to stop another driver then stopped gave me her card and said she saw the whole thing when I got home the instructor said to my mum so there was a little incident this didn't happen to me but a colleague sir he's in a queue at the Central Station as the second car the first car just got a customer and as that car leaves out of nowhere four different people get into his car at once a handyman type fellow a businessman a painter and a regular Joe one of them tells him to follow the car that just left the one that was in front of him in the queue he follows the car but the riders dead silent and he's starting to get worried that maybe it's not such a great idea to comply with these random people before he has thought it through the car they're following stops after a short ride and they asked him to stop a bit further back as soon as he stops all four of them just jump out and leave the cab empty without having paid the fare before he has time to process what just happened a woman gets in at the front passenger side and wants to pay for the ride she also offers an apology and an explanation they wear all undercover cops she showed her badge and told him that they had to keep surveillance on that person in the first cab she paid and then quickly ran off we never got to know more than that though drove cabs years ago in Brisbane Australia had one sawed off fare like this I'm in the cab line at Roma st. Station when a very attractive young woman hops into the cab in front of mine within seconds of her getting in a young man opened the door to my cab and jumped in he said this is going to sound really corny but can you follow that cab he pointed at the cab in front the one the young woman got into driving a cab can be pretty boring at times especially when you're sitting at a rank for ages so I agreed we waited for the cab in front to pull out and waited and waited the driver opens his door and gets out moves around to the front of the cab and lifts the bonnet the cab won't start it looks terminal so the woman gets out of the cab and comes back two hours as it's the only other cab on the rank she sticks her head in the window and asks if she can get a ride with us I turned to the young man and asked if that's okay obviously he says yes the young woman had to get to the airport she had some business in Sydney apparently so I headed that way while they sat in the back making small talk by the time we get to the airport she's given the young man a phone number dropped her off and asked the young man where he wants to go he tells me back to Rome our st. apparently he was changing trains there on the way to work and spotted the young woman at the train station so back we go this guy has a grin on his face that was so big I was worried it would meet up at the back of his head when we get back to Roma st. he offers to give me a tip which I refuse I told him the story alone was worth any tip he could give and he seemed fine with that we were heading to a ski camp in Elias leanness Argentina we land in Buenos Aires on the N and our bus doesn't leave on till 8:00 at night so during the whole day we have a guide showing us around where no Sargeras on till we show up at the bus station to get going the guide starts looking for the bus we are supposed to get on and after asking a few questions to someone in charge he starts to panic and tells us we missed it by like ten minutes I am Not sure again why we got there late but but besides the point and at this point the drive to LA s leanness is something like 12 hours so the guide is running around everywhere trying to figure out a ride for us there is four others including the guide it's me another skier and the coach you need to realize we have luggage to last us three weeks plus two pairs of skis tunning kits boots helmets all that stuff the guide finds to beat up taxes we fill both of them up and the plan is to catch the bus before it leaves the next station it's stopping it before going on its long trip so I am sitting in the front passenger seat have ski bags leaning on my right shoulder between the headrest and the window in the back there's barely enough room for the other skier and the guide the coach is in the other taxi whether the rest of the luggage were flying through the street software nor cell you res while the guide and the driver are arguing about the price for the special drive meanwhile I am sitting there holding onto the handle on the roof thinking you'll give that butthole whatever price he wants if he dosent kill us I am not kidding when I tell you the car got air at some point the road was slowly going downhill with roads going perpendicular through it so it made for some perfect airtime at one point we had to stop at a red light and his frickin car died the taxi driver starts yelling in Spanish and calling his car a Punto while turning the key and bashing on the dash I was thinking this is nuts this car as crap were never going to make it and then BAM out of nowhere just before the light turned green car started well how we eventually made it to the other station the bus was there and we got on and made it to LA a Salinas I have two stories both in separate trips to Cuba the first one happened when a group of guys including me and my dad we're getting into taxes to get back to the hotel as soon as we had boarded the taxis my dad told the drivers that he will tip $50 us to whichever driver got to the hotel first now $50 is a lot of money for a Cuban taxi driver so needless to say they both started driving as fast as possible swerving through traffic running red lights and not stopping at intersections we came close to crashing at full speed in an old 50s car with no seatbelts at least 10 times all for $50 contrastingly on another occasion me and some friends were coming out of a nightclub and two of the guys got into a car with two girls and some guys driving these old cars have those front seats where you can sit three people we had to be back at the hotel in 30 minutes or we would lose our shuttle and consequently our flight back home so I told them to get out of that random car because they didn't have time to go somewhere else they wouldn't listen and the guys driving started to try and drive away so I in front if the car and punched the hood to make them stop everyone got a bit scares and my friends got out of the car if the Cubans got quite angry so we rushed into a taxi and drove off however they started chasing us and when they cut up with us I pulled my arm out of the window and flipped them off to this they responded by clubbing my arm with a metal tube and then driving speeding off I told the taxi driver I would give him $100 dollars if he followed and caught up with em probably the stupidest idea of my life luckily the taxi was a reasonable man and said he wouldn't do it because that would get us all killed thanks to that we got back to the hotel safely and on time had a lot of crazy things when I was driving a cab craziest was when I had a fare steal his wife's purse for drug money unbeknownst to me drive him from one motel to another to meet up with a couple he was hanging out with then to a crack house to make a purchase leaving there my dispatch calls my cell and tells me he had stolen the person to take him back to the original motel so the cops could arrest him dispatch tells me to run red lights and stop for nothing until I get him back to be arrested of course if I had done that I would have been tied up forever and I wouldn't have gotten paid I asked the guy if he wanted to go ahead and get arrested tonight or some other time he chose some other time so I told him to pay me what was on the meter and I would tell the cops he bolted when I got caught in traffic I was in Calcutta several years ago with some friends of mine doing some volunteer work we were heading back to our hotel and divided into two groups to get into rickshaws three people per rickshaw as the other group took off in front of us we spontaneously told the driver to race the rickshaw that just took off he had this devious grin that showed that he was up for the challenge he absolutely floored it he cut through traffic ignored pedestrians rang through traffic lights at one stage he drove on the wrong side of the road in between two oncoming trucks just to overtake our friends needless to say that we won the race and we tipped him generously TL DR Indian rickshaw drivers take no prisoners not a real possibility of that happening as the cab company I worked for frowned on picking up no calls meaning if you dot call first to God get a cab and we didn't use meat as law but someone came to the actual cab stand and I was next in line and they said we had to catch so-and-so that just robbed him and a $100 tip was the incentive we caught the guy they fought cop pulled up behind me I got a ticket for speeding they both were arrested for fighting and I got stuck paying the fare because the guy got arrested the cop was already going to get me for speeding getting them for fighting was a bonus I guess what was the total cost to me you might be wondering three points on my license three hundred between court cost and fine 100 bucks for driver ed course to remove points eighteen point five zero for the FIR four hundred and eighteen point five zero ha funny what they say about the baader-meinhof phenomenon I'm reading salmon hood out by Douglas Adams and just got to the bit where Dirk Gently hails a cab and tells the driver to follow that cab to which the cabbie goes on at length about how nobody ever says that and how surprised he is that someone actually said it to him well I was driving this guy around a few days ago and he said he wanted to go bowling he was coughing and crap all over my cab I asked if he wanted any help but he said he was just going to subway home I don't know though cause subways in the nikah kind of busy funniest thing now I am coughing - guess I got his flu or whatever it was not a driver but a passenger we were a large group so we had to take two cabs the first group got in the first cabin gave the address I got in the second cab and jokingly said follow that cab I was going to give him the address so he could take us to our destination but he took us seriously and just followed the other cab until it got to the hotel I was a cab driver for many years my policy was to not follow that car there are all kinds of reasons why this is a bad idea and mainly I would ask them what the destination was and drive there directly if the situation was such that there were no other options I would ask them if for sure that the person in the other vehicle knows that they are being followed the year I turned 20 a friend and I got jobs as taxi drivers in the Hamptons it was an incredible and insane experience and I've got a few stories I remember from that summer including but not limited to offers to smoke crack picking up millionaires from helipads and rebuffing forceful advances from drunk and aggressive gay men however only one of which involved an actual car chase the shifts were 5:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. and us summer hires only worked Thursday Friday and Saturday when everyone was out partying and spending money after a few weeks they decide to let me take the cab home between shifts so I don't have to drive my rattletrap Honda back and forth to the east end of Long Island Friday mid-afternoon I decide to get the taxi washed before heading out to start my night I'm in some pretty heavy traffic country through town to the carwash our t25 in center each if anyone cares when the lineup cars ahead of me stops suddenly I screeched to a halt and look into my rearview to see the woman behind panic flashed across her face try and swerve to the right unfortunately she isn't quite fast enough and Clips my bumper and taillight okay no big deal we'll just pull over and do the Insurance shuffle but no she takes off down the shoulder and we're off she hooks into a parking lot me following honking trying to get her to pull over she's shouting and waving her arms I noticed the elderly woman and the passenger's seat and little girl in the back when she pauses to pull back onto the road and into a residential neighborhood luckily for their sake this wasn't a particularly high speed chase after a few twists and turns she pulls into a driveway and hustles everyone into the house but I'm already on the phone with the police giving them the address it's starting to get late at this point and I don't stick around long after giving the cops my statement I do partly feel bad about it because I'm pretty sure she was running due to sketchy insurance or immigration status but I sure as heck couldn't just bring in a smashed-up cab without getting a police report I got a few sideways looks when I showed up at the office to trade for a fresh cab and hand in the police report but otherwise the rest of that night was pretty normal at least in the context of that surreal summer if this gets any interest I'll I post more taxi stories not a taxi driver but I once had one chaser bus for me I was visiting my girlfriend at a remote part of Costa Rica around 12 hours away from home the only Road to get there go through a very mountainous region so that's why it takes so long to get there despite Costa Rica being so small so I planned on coming back home on the first bus Sunday morning the only one that was not completely sold out anyway because I had to work on Monday according to my girlfriend there were two places where I could take the bus the terminal and a stop at the outskirts of the town she decided it would be are nice to wait for the bus at the stop so we could spend a little longer together so I said sure why not at the stop and for a moment she started kissing me and we got distracted when all of a sudden the bus passed by she freaked out I freaked out as well she started walking towards the taxi stopped nearby and I followed not understanding what she is planning she picked a cabin told me get the Frick inside the car and then tells the driver he missed the bus follow it the guy floored the gas and I fastened my seatbelt trust me the ride was like being on a roller coaster with all the turns and Hills my heart was racing we finally spot the bus after 20 very dangerous minutes moment at which the cab driver started honking over and over again the bus doesn't stop so at the first straightish part of the road that we reached the taxi sped up past the bus and forced it to stop the bus driver was like dude what the Frick you want to die I paid and got off the taxi and showed the bus driver my ticket only to find out that surprised it was not the but I was supposed to take mine had not passed yet so I was left stranded for like 20 minutes in the middle of the jungle wondering what's gonna happen finally my bus arrived I got on took a seat and proceeded to vomit my guts out I threw up three times in the first hour of the ride I had only one bag to collect it and somehow some of the vomit ended overflowing and falling on my pants 10 hours later or so I was finally home I freaking drive taxi in a small Canadian town for a living I used to be on the night shift Thursday Satar our busiest nights I've seen it all on night shift we have several prominence he and crack dealers in my small town I'm the youngest cabbie in my town 28 and so it's normal that they normally request me when they call in to dispatch I've had this guy throw his cellphones out of my cab when he sees police he has giving me $100 to hang out in a hotel parking lot where we saw some police I dropped him off at the mall first then went back to the hotel to see if the police were still there they weren't and I got 100 bucks for doing it law and yeah I've had that guy tell me to follow a car or stick to a very strict routine when driving bad times he would lay down in the back seat and tell me what direction to go he could freaking tell where we were without sitting up and looking out the window it was pretty flicked up actually I'm back on days now I asked to the 5:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. was killing me I can honestly say that the cash was better on nights and old people during the day wear me out like they literally drain me out I hate carrying their stupid walkers and their stupid groceries they don't tip they often only need a cab for a block which equals about four point nine zero on the meter the meter starts at 3.75 it's annoying as crap one time in Mexico City we were at one of my relatives wedding the night before we decided to go out for some tacos it was around 10:00 p.m. and it was eight of us we hailed a taxi down and asked if he would take us to the Garibaldi Plaza he looked at all of us and said if you think you can fit in the car sure his wife was sitting in the front seat so we opened the doors and we all started to make our way into the car two of my cousins are 5 minutes and 10 seconds and 6 feet the rest of us are between 5 feet and 5 feet 8 inches his wife moved into the middle of the front seats I went in the front next to the ladened my cousin Paul who was only 15 at the time and 5-0 rail-thin squished in next to me sort of sitting on my lap half cheek on my lap and the other squished by the door panel now the batter was a complete [ __ ] take into consideration that this car was a 1980s Dodge Dart my sister brother-in-law and my cousin sat down my other two tall cousins had to lay across them their feet actually ended dangling outside the window because we couldn't fit it was the worst 20 minutes ride ever in a taxi setting Saudi Arabia French expats of Middle Eastern and Pakistani descents they hailed caps which were likely driven by a Pakistani Bangladeshi or an Indian these workers are typically paid a fixed rate of $200 per month and in Saudi Arabia it is unheard of to tip a taxi driver so my friends split up into two separate taxes and told each driver that they would tip him 20 wheels if they arrived at destination before the other taxi apparently the two drivers drove like madmen if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music]

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Id: RX4qHMCcCAU

Length: 37min 49sec (2269 seconds)

Published: Thu May 28 2020