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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:02 am 
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Passenger; "Driver, we booked this cab for 10.15, you're 20 minutes late!

Me (every time); "Well it's a good thing I came for you, otherwise you would have still been waiting!"

Shuts them up every time.

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volvoman wrote:
"You are 15 minutes late, :


And the next day, when you arrive within two minutes of the call:

"Your office said you'd be ten minutes. I've just bought another pint!"


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.... I always used to get the same thing said to me...

Oh good I'm glad it is you, it's nice to have someone with manners :lol: :lol:

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When they flag you down or get in at a Taxi Rank & say,

"Can I have a taxi to ....... "

It creases me up every time.

FFS they're already in the cab!!!

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MR T wrote:
.... I always used to get the same thing said to me...

Oh good I'm glad it is you, it's nice to have someone with manners :lol: :lol:


And I thought I was the only one on here who got that!! 8)


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and the classic...."you should have been her 20 minutes ago..."


why, what happened?



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for a courier/van driver....


"that lot should have been on a pallet mate"


"it was when i set off....MATE"

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MR T wrote:
Oh good I'm glad it is you, it's nice to have someone with manners :lol: :lol:

What is manners the name of your dog? :wink:

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Six years since I left the Royal Navy and became a Hackney driver in Plymouth.
Four times I have picked up at the Bus Station and the punter wants to go to the Gosport Ferry - Portsmouth!
Once I got asked for the Cathedral - no problem, when we get there the punter says "this is not the Cathedral, you can see HMS Nelson from the Cathedral"- Portsmouth!
And the best, the very best. "HMS VICTORY please driver" so I replied "Sir the Victory is in Portsmouth, this is Plymouth" What did he say? "@loody hell, thats the second time I got the wrong town and came here - I still havn't seen the Victory".

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Chris the Fish wrote:
I still havn't seen the Victory".

Must be a Newcastle United fan. :lol: :lol:

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Chris the Fish wrote:
Six years since I left the Royal Navy and became a Hackney driver in Plymouth.
Four times I have picked up at the Bus Station and the punter wants to go to the Gosport Ferry - Portsmouth!
Once I got asked for the Cathedral - no problem, when we get there the punter says "this is not the Cathedral, you can see HMS Nelson from the Cathedral"- Portsmouth!
And the best, the very best. "HMS VICTORY please driver" so I replied "Sir the Victory is in Portsmouth, this is Plymouth" What did he say? "@loody hell, thats the second time I got the wrong town and came here - I still havn't seen the Victory".


I'll do the return!!!!


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When you pull off the rank leave no cabs with a fare that's only going half a mile, drop off, run back, max 3 or 4 mins, punter jumps in..

Been waiting here over 20 mins, where's all the cabs? :x :x

Understandable at night when they're p!ssed but I work days.

When they come up to you first in a queue of a dozen cabs and ask if you're free or if you're working.


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Sussex wrote:
MR T wrote:
Oh good I'm glad it is you, it's nice to have someone with manners :lol: :lol:

What is manners the name of your dog? :wink:



No, his name is Satan. :shock:

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cabbyman wrote:
MR T wrote:
.... I always used to get the same thing said to me...

Oh good I'm glad it is you, it's nice to have someone with manners :lol: :lol:


And I thought I was the only one on here who got that!! 8)


It would seem we are mixing with a bad bunch....... I blame the parents! 8)

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Why are you late I booked this 3 days ago?

I can't make them understand it doesn't matter when they book it, it's a hackney circut it a cab aint avalable, it aint avalable.

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Four times I have picked up at the Bus Station and the punter wants to go to the Gosport Ferry - Portsmouth!

Couple of lads came up to the rank in Gosport
"Where to lads?"
"Parkhust Prison please"
"Right get back on that small boat there then get on that huge boat going to the Isle of Wight ........Bye!"
:lol: :lol: :lol:

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