what's the strangest conversation you've had with a taxi driver.

Birneybau

mrs crilly wrote: »

I was coming home from a party one Sunday morning in a taxi, I dropped my ex fiancee off and then I got the taxi man to take me around to where I was living.

He told me that he read faces and would he like me to read mine. Me of course in my drug fuelled state said yeah no bother off ya go.

That taxi man told me things that only I knew about myself. He told me how the man I was with was not right for me and that within 4 mths it would be over.

He told me things about my past and my family and he then told me somethings about my future which have also come through.

I sobered up fairly quickly after that, I was so shaken getting out of the taxi that he never even took my fare off me. I think he felt bad for frightening the ****e out of me

To this day it is the strangest encounter I have ever had in a taxi (or any other place!) in my life.

Was it this guy?

http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/108578/108578_large.jpg

No, wait, he was the ghost of Christmas Past.

jay gatsby

Normally begins with the taxi driver saying - Now I'm no racist... but, it's often a long and winding and ever descending road from there generally I find

Dravokivich

Dan133269 wrote: »

Well, how long have you been in Ireland for?

Well... this time around about 7 months. But that was a fecking weekend away in Germany!

Steven81

So what year did you retire from your state job and then be a taxi driver?

Fiona

Dan133269 wrote: »

Well in fairness to this highly observant taxi driver, if he saw you with your fiancee, and also knew that you were cheating on her with some man, then probably neither of them were right for you!

Spelling never was my strong point!

Confab wrote: »

You're been drinking petrol again. Gives nasty hallucinations.

Was it the broom broom coming from my mouth every time i did a hiccup that gave it away?

Raging_Ninja

There was 6-8 of us getting a minivan-type taxi in Killarney about 8 years ago for a post-Leaving Cert party thing.

Anyways, the driver was chatting away to the guys up the front, and they were talking about girls and whatnot, and how one of the guys was mad into getting with a black girl. Taxi driver was saying how it was all pink on the inside and so on.

Anyways, then he starts talking about his son, who had raped a girl. He said the Guards were telling the son to confess, how he'd get off lightly. "And then the fucking judge the the book at him! Fu"cking Guards".

Ended the conversation anyways.

Gloomtastic!

One night, general recession chit chat......

Driver: 'I don't care, I'm gettin' the f*ck out of here!'.
Me: 'Oh yeah ,where you moving to?'
Driver: 'Outer Mongolia'.

brummytom

I seem to attract slightly unhinged taxi drivers

"Have you got a girlfriend, kid?"
"Erm.. no"
"Don't get one. But don't fuck around yeah? You'll get them pregnant. Then they've got you. WOMAN ARE FUCKING CRAZY I SWEAR. THEY RUIN YOUR LIFE"
"Right.. here, please"


Got a taxi home from a club last week. Was sharing it with a mate (girl) who lives around the corner. I get into the taxi as she's hanging from a lad's mouth
"Sorry mate, one second - I'm just waiting for that girl there"
"The ginger one?"
"Yeah"
"Is she your girlfriend?"
"Would I be sitting here watching her get off with that lad if she was?"
"Ah I don't judge"



I went to get a taxi in Cavan last August. My BnB was about a 20 minute walk but it was 4 in the morning, pitch black, I was on my own and the way back wasn't lit, so I asked a taxi that was pulled up at the side of the road.

"Could I just go to Kilnavara, please?"
"Sure it's only down the road, ye can walk it easy"
"Um.. I will pay..."
"Look. You head straight down that road and just carry on, it's easy"

Can't say I've ever had a taxi driver refuse to give me a lift before

InReality

Had one tell me that he used to work as a male escort. Would go to events with rich single woman and pretend to be their bf.
Was pretty convincing , said he would give me the card of the woman who ran the operation , but he couldn't find it.

another guy in israel asked if i was married , said his daugther should get engaged to a guy like me , and rang he on his mobile while I was in the car.
I said hello

I like the crazy taxi drivers.

Agent Smith

In one taxi in romanina i was offered Cocaine, Hookers,When i declined the hookers he asked "you like boys?", cheap currency and he assured me he could get me a Gun if the money was right.


Bizarre journey

bigneacy

chatterpillar wrote:

Dublin girls always sit in the back of the car

sluts

Sunnyisland

bigneacy wrote: »

sluts

wexie

...taking a taxi from hotel to the office in London....taxi driver spent nearly half an hour convincing me I really should take one of the about 20 copies of Mein Kampf he had in the backseat cause 'a nice white boy in a suit like you will find it interesting reading'

very creepy and unsettling

Taking a taxi from Temple bar to Dundrum (bout 3 am saturday morning) and walking home from the bleedin horse cause the taxi driver was more locked then we were (which was quite an achievement) and insisted he was fine as he'd 'done a couple of lines'

jaffacakesyum

chatterpillar wrote: »

Yeah that's coz you're from Dublin though, right? It's the norm here, it wouldn't be done at all where I'm from though!!

I'm from Dublin and always sit in the front seat. I don't get girls that sit in the back - it's so rude!

Love having the chats with the taxi men. I'm sure I've had a few funny conversations alright but I only get taxis home from town on a night out so ehhh yeah...don't remember much :pac:

wexie

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

Love having the chats with the taxi men.

Isn't it just crazy how they're all called 'taxi man'?

ihsb

I love my taxi men! I always call them by their name and I find myself confiding in them.

The weirdest has to be when one (about 60 years old, I am 23) gave me his number incase I didn't get lucky that night so he could show me a good time. I got the taxi from a taxi rank not far from my house, I hate walking past it still.

Another was me crying my eyes out and the taxi driver telling me that all men are pricks and I am lovely and deserve better. How nice?!

themandan6611

taxi from a hotel to train station in westport.

bout 2 pm, hop in with the other half. Start with the usual conversation about the weather, when the driver says " yeah sure its a great day alright, I think when I finish up soon I'll get a six pack and watch some porn for the afternoon".

eh o'k.

The Master of Disaster

I had one a few years ago who had been in the French Foreign Legion when Somalia first kicked off in the early 90's and he started telling me about all the exceptionally horrible stuff he'd seen there. He was actually a really interesting and nice guy but it was clear that period had left a bit of a mark on him. It was just a really surreal conversation to be having on the way home from a night in town.

Babybuff

had one lad tell me how he liked to dress up in womens clothes and stuff. I was a regular with the company so I think he was at the stage where he felt like he could tell me anything.

wexie

......Reading all these posts I can't help but wonder if there's a taxi driver forum somewhere with threads like:

'You'll never guess what I got these eejits to believe today'
'How much can you freak out a customer before they leggit?'

etc....

Any taxi drivers on wanna enlighten us? Do you guys have competitions in headmessing?

AngryBollix

An albanian taxi driver in London tried to tell me that John Terry was sucking off Sol Campbell

LH Pathe

None.. that.. I deemed strange as such; usually overly see eye to eye with em to such an extent I find it hard to part when I reach my destination - one mans terrorist is another mans freedom talker? Best friends I never made.

Yeah Yeah Yeah

In London , good long drive outta town. Got chatting about kids. He had a picture of his daughter on dash board. And we was chatting about family and kids.

The strange part was he would not take a shilling from me. He said he was on his way home anyway.

Normally cost me 15 sterlings. Leicester Square to Kentish Town.

FoxT

Was on a business trip in Bucharest a few years back. Bucharest is a nice city, lovely architecure, cobbled squares, etc. Passing through one of the squares, I commented to the driver that it looked beautiful. He told me that causescu used to torture prisoners & when the torturers were done, they'd take the prisoners up in a helicopter & dump them on the square.

He told me he'd often seen bodies there. Don't know if it was true or not, though I suspect it was. In any event, it shut me up...

Reamer Fanny

Are you busy.

Where To

Some of the posters on this thread would make great taxi men/women :pac:

Natural storytellers. . . .

Reamer Fanny

Where To wrote: »

Some of the posters on this thread would make great taxi men/women :pac:

Natural storytellers. . . .

My sarcasm detector just exploded