Tuesday, November 25, 2008
taxi cab rides
Every since I started at SMU, I take taxi cabs almost everywhere I go. The first thing I noticed about the taxi cabs that was different here then it is in California was that every person riding in the cab is charged 2 dollars. So if I were to go in a taxi cab with 4 people we would be charged how long it took to get to our destination plus 8 dollars for everyone in the taxi cab. This is very smart for the taxi cab drivers because everywhere we go in cabs, only costs about 5 dollars but when you stuff 10 people in a taxi they are making 25 dollars for a 5 minute taxi ride. This is not good for us though because it costs us more money then we want to spend. Anyway I just thought it was kind of funny how they charge 2 dollars per person in a taxi cab, I have never seen that before, but you learn something new everyday.
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I know exactly what you mean. The taxi drivers make an incredible amount of profit from every ride with a lot of people. I spend an incredible amount of money on the weekends on only taxi fares. It's pretty ridiculous but until I get a car next year, or until one of my friends does I'll have to keep paying large amounts of money for taxi rides.
I agree with both of you. But how about when the cab drivers driver around in circles in residential communities just to waste time to make a buck? Then you ask them "did we take a detour? Why did we just drive around Highland Park for no reason?" and they say "I don't speak English, I was confused." Do not sit here and tell me that you don't know your way around, because I am not even from Dallas and I know my way around. Just because Im young doesn't mean you can rip me off.
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