Rug Burn Junky on 11/3/2007 at 19:14
9/11/06 NEVAR FORGET
Quote Posted by Bikerdude
$200k is seriously well off - more money than sense land
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the sort you (sic) of money that mostly only mummy and daddy have for their little
I'm trying to make understand the logic of this post.
Evidently, making a lot of money means that either you have no sense or that your parents give it to you?
:confused:
Here I thought it just means that you're smart and got a good, well paying job?
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you need to be blaming your fellow New Yorkers 'cause this hookeresk (sic) behaviour must work else they wouldn't do it.
Again, wtf kind of retarded logic is this? It works? As though people who didn't otherwise need a cab get in to one just because a cabby slows down and stares at them?
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And of course, it happened again last night, four cabs in a row, all staring at me like I'm a piece of meat as they drove past.
I hate being objectified like that.
Scots Taffer on 12/3/2007 at 00:17
You know you want it. Walking along the sidewalk, looking vaguely into the sea of traffic, you're searching us out - you want us. Secretly, you want nothing better than slide into the sticky confines and go for a wild ride... but you deny yourself, you pretend that you want black leather upholstered, air-conditioned luxury, when really, deep beneath your buttoned down yuppie pretensions, you need my dirty cab, you want my dirty cab. And we'll keep coming for you, until you admit it.
SubJeff on 12/3/2007 at 20:35
Come on RBJ, you know it works. Just not on you. It's like the call centers that cold-call offering mobile phone deals. Those guys get a lot of grief from most of the people they call, yet it goes on because it works enough of the time for it to be worth it.
And I agree with Scots. Deep inside, you know...
Rug Burn Junky on 12/3/2007 at 20:58
So, people get into cabs and decide to go someplace because a cabbie leers at them?
Think this through. I don't know what you're thinking, but I do know that it's retarded in this context.
Carini on 12/3/2007 at 21:30
Do find that the cabbies leer at you more than the panhandlers?
CyberFish on 12/3/2007 at 22:36
"Well, I was going to walk there, but since there's a cab right here I might as well save myself the effort."
Rug Burn Junky on 12/3/2007 at 23:21
I know you think you're being cute, but I assure you, that's not how being a pedestrian in NYC works.
Scots Taffer on 13/3/2007 at 00:46
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
And I agree with Scots. Deep inside, you know...
I was merely pointing out that I know deep beneath RBJ's Alinea-restaurant exterior lurks a corner-stand hot-dog with onions eater. I know nothing about NYC.
Rug Burn Junky on 13/3/2007 at 01:08
Onions?
Fuck that.
Mustard and kraut. ;)
demagogue on 13/3/2007 at 01:41
Well, to give another reason to hold (some) cabbies in contempt, my most recent experience with them is when you actually DO signal for them, and they signal BACK that they are going to stop for you, nod their head, even turn on their turn-blinker that they are going to pull over for you, but someone else jumps into the cab. This happened to me not once, but TWICE, mind you, a few days ago; two cabbies signaled to me in this way, began to pull over to MY signal, and then another person jumped into MY cab, and he let them!
You see, I had some bags and was on the opposite side of the stop-lights. It's raining (can't miss that little detail), so I'm under a typical sidewalk-scaffolding roof to keep my bags and me as dry as I could. But traffic can still see me clearly from the other side, and clearly see that I have bags and cannot really lumber out into the street easily.
The first cabbie clearly saw me and began pulling over before stopping at the stop light ... and some lady just casually walked up on the cab-side, 15 seconds flat, and she enters oblivious (after I'm waiting like 10 minutes, lugging bags), as if the cab were pulling over just for her.
Feeling pissed as he passed by without so much as a see-you-round glance (he clearly averted his eyes), I took pains to make sure I would really get in the way of the next cab. I really wave him down this time, and this time, not only does he begin to pull-over, this trick actually physically nods to me and turns on his turn-blinkers as he is just caught by the stop light. The turn-signal continues to blink throughout the wait. Now get this: Bitch from across the street runs THROUGH FUCKING TRAFFIC and jumps into MY cab as the light turns green, and he stops MID-INTERSECTION, lets her in and drives off like a bat out of hell. I literally said aloud "motherfucker" in disbelief. (edit: I wouldn't normally call a random woman crossing the street "Bitch", by the way ... just the situation annoyed me.)
I wouldn't be caught a third time so I lugged my bags out into the rain, across the intersection, and midway into the first lane to make damn sure I wouldn't miss another one. So much for expecting to play the 'bags in rain' sympathy card. I saw some more people coming too, but I gave them a glare from hell to back off.
So not only do cabbies leer at you like a piece of meat, but they are ready to jump at the first piece of meat before you that they see, turn-signaling-semi-contractual-obligation-to-stop-for-you or not.
