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

harry Bailey esq · 27-03-2012 12:37pm #1

i use taxis quite often,and in last week or two alone iv had drivers tell me bout cheating wives,lottery wins,grandchildren,viagra and Allsorts,I've even had a driver claim he was a big cheese in the freemasons!!! what's the strangest conversation you've ever had in a taxi?

Orim · 27-03-2012 12:41pm

Was coming home from a Street Fighter tournament (the game) with four monitors and a load of other equipment. Taxi driver asked me about them and we got chatting. Turns out my taxi driver had been involved in bare-knuckle boxing for years and had once fought the king of the travellers.

Got regaled with tales of his 20 odd year career which he had kept a secret from the wife.

Steven81 · 27-03-2012 12:46pm

So are you busy tonight?

mikemac1 · 27-03-2012 12:49pm

"Where you from, you don't sound Irish"

I was sober, it was the afternoon and my accent does be pure bogger so it does be

I was confused how that even happened

Not a funny story, just a strange one
No Irish person ever said that to me before

UnkieKev · 27-03-2012 12:50pm

"been working long today?"
"what time do you finish up?"

typical taxi conversation!

UnkieKev · 27-03-2012 12:50pm

"been working long today?"
"what time do you finish up?"

typical taxi conversation!

kfallon · 27-03-2012 12:52pm

Got a taxi with a driver who was originally from Africa.

We were discussing the days football, I said:

"So you support Arsenal?"

He said, "No"

I nearly fell out the door with the shock :P

chin_grin · 27-03-2012 12:53pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

viagra and Allsorts

:eek:

Sounds lick-her-ish.

27-03-2012 12:53pm

Taxi driver in bold

"Is it busy?"
"Yes"
"I'm only going down the road"
"No problem"

AnonoBoy · 27-03-2012 12:54pm

Had a long conversation with a driver from Africa once which resulted in him breaking down in tears because his wife had left him and she wouldn't let him see their daughter anymore.

I felt really bad for the guy.

Attabear · 27-03-2012 12:54pm

Taxi driver once made a very serious attempt to convert me to his own version of catholicism. He claimed that the devil had been in charge of the catholic church since Vatican II (the sequel?).

He also made some bizarre predictions that to the best of my knowledge all came true:eek:

I was well tanked up at the time though.

44leto · 27-03-2012 12:56pm

One tried to convert me to christian beliefs, that was kind of strange. I like the Dublin taximen most you can have a good chat and laugh with.

But if this thread was only for taximen and about strange conversations they had with their punters, I am sure a drunken 44leto would be very prominent. God have I shortened the life of quite a few of them with my drunken ramblings.

Sykk · 27-03-2012 12:56pm

I remember one in which I literally couldn't fathom the stupidity.

This dub, young guy was in his early thirties by the look of him: we got talking about the economy and jobs. He had told me he just left a job to get his taxi license. He was a steel worker earning €600 a week after tax, and ragequitted because they refused him a payrise!!

Wtf?!!? Now he was telling me he earns €300 on a good week, but doesn't regret it because it's their loss. And that he can't afford the bills anymore but he wouldn't work for them because they earn millions and wouldn't pay him more..

:pac::pac:

phasers · 27-03-2012 12:56pm

"What's the point in watching porn?"

...The taxi driver was my Dad, by the way.

winston82 · 27-03-2012 12:57pm

Orim wrote: »

Was coming home from a Street Fighter tournament (the game) with four monitors and a load of other equipment. Taxi driver asked me about them and we got chatting. Turns out my taxi driver had been involved in bare-knuckle boxing for years and had once fought the king of the travellers.

Got regaled with tales of his 20 odd year career which he had kept a secret from the wife.

Taxi drivers are full of sh1t. All of them. No exceptions.

jokettle · 27-03-2012 12:59pm

One taxi driver told me all about his passion for fishing, how he was named Best Fisherman In The World Ever* and took out a battered photo of himself holding his prizewinning fish. In fairness it was an impressive catch, but he kept insisting that he "didn't like to brag about it".....why show completely disinterested strangers the photos then?

*Probably not his actual title.

DoesNotCompute · 27-03-2012 1:01pm

winston82 wrote: »

Taxi drivers are full of sh1t. All of them. No exceptions.

Exactly. Any tall tales from a taxi driver should be taken with a mountain of salt.

shawnee · 27-03-2012 1:02pm

Had the misfortune to ask one how was he doing recently. He poured out his sorrows about the economy the taxi business , his mortage etc for 15 minutes. He then had the cheek to ask me for 11 euro.... felt he should have paid me 40 for the listening

Fiona · 27-03-2012 1:02pm

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.

DoesNotCompute · 27-03-2012 1:02pm

shawnee wrote: »

Had the misfortune to ask one how was he doing recently. He poured out his sorrows about the economy the taxi business , his mortage etc for 15 minutes. He then had the cheek to ask me for 11 euro.... felt he should have paid me 40 for the listening

:eek: 11 euro for a 15 min journey? Pretty good value, tbh.

fish fingers · 27-03-2012 1:03pm

A Will Young song was on the radio, All time love it was. I was saying it's not the worst song in the world. African taxi driver says " I don't like it cause he's gay" okaaay.

Orim · 27-03-2012 1:03pm

winston82 wrote: »

Taxi drivers are full of sh1t. All of them. No exceptions.

Maybe, maybe not. End of the day it was an entertaining journey and far better then some fool talking football at me.

Dravokivich · 27-03-2012 1:04pm

Well I don't find it strange, but whenever any mates of mine are in a taxi with me they are always amused when the driver asks me how long I've been in Ireland for.

:mad:

Giselle · 27-03-2012 1:15pm

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.

Since you were admittedly drug fueled could it not be that you're remembering it as more accurate and noteworthy than it actually was?

GetInTheHole! · 27-03-2012 1:25pm

I was chatting to a young-ish dublin driver about GAA one night when the topic of splitting Dublin into two intercounty teams (North & South) came up.

The chap got really angry about the fact that it would not be allowed - saying that it was typical GAA anti-Dublin bias espcially due to the fact that Meath were allowed to split into two teams for the GAA (Meath & Westmeath)..

With geography obviously not being a strong point - he did get me home in fairness to him.

Fiona · 27-03-2012 1:35pm

Giselle wrote: »

Since you were admittedly drug fueled could it not be that you're remembering it as more accurate and noteworthy than it actually was?

Nope remember it clear as day. Like i said it sobered me up fairly quick.

Hobbes · 27-03-2012 1:38pm

I have had loads. Here are some of the better ones.

- While driving on the M50 something on the radio set the driver off, and he went on about how 9/11 was all planned, but Bush was innocent, instead some ultra secret organization caused it to help undermine the world.. blah blah... He kept turning around to me (while on the M50) saying "Don't you agree?". Scared the heck out of me in his driving and that if I even entered into the conversation I would be thrown out of the Taxi.

- (In the US) With a Chinese friend in the taxi with me, the taxi driver informed her that he liked Chinese people because they didn't suffer from the retardation that black people suffered. He then sat there in all seriousness about how the skin pigmentation causes retardation, so it isn't their fault. I was speechless. My friend on the other hand had a go at him, where he finished up with responding with "I'm not racist, I have loads of black friends!".

Only time I have rang a Taxi company to complain about a driver.

- (In the US) This was around 1999/2000. There was a Boston taxi driver who told me that he related to some kickbacks court case going on in Ireland, where he had sold his Pub to cash to some TD and left Ireland to avoid the revenue commissioners. When I mentioned about getting extradited, he just laughed and said there was no chance of it.

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By far the most bizarre and scariest. I had one taxi driver about another fare that mugged him (robbed what was visible and ran). But didn't run away, instead ran halfway down an alleyway and started jeering him. Knowing he was liable to get mugged or lose the taxi, he didn't follow him.

A few hours later he tells me he sees the guy walking down the road as if not a bother on him.

So at this point he tells me that he ran over the guy, stopped and reversed over him again. Then while the guy was screaming in pain, got out and took all his cash. Then using the guys phone he rang the guards and said he ran the guy over, and where. When they asked his name he said "Do you think I am an idiot" and drove off.

All I could think at that point was this guy knows where I live.

The Big Red Button · 27-03-2012 1:43pm

Every time I get a taxi on my own, if it's an Irish driver, they'll always say "So you're from the country, are you?" before they even hear my accent! Just because I sit in the passenger seat ... apparently, Dublin girls always sit in the back of the car? I'd feel awful rude doing that if I was on my own!

Dubit10 · 27-03-2012 1:44pm

On my way home from work in the back of a cab one night in Brooklyn the taxi driver pulled out a shotgun from the front the car and told me about how he's used it twice before shooting at people who have legged it on him without paying the fair. I must have looked like a runner or something. I left him a big tip.

booboo88 · 27-03-2012 1:45pm

Global warming :rolleyes:
It wasn't really a conversation more of a talking at.

coffee_cake · 27-03-2012 1:45pm

chatterpillar wrote: »

Every time I get a taxi on my own, if it's an Irish driver, they'll always say "So you're from the country, are you?" before they even hear my accent! Just because I sit in the passenger seat ... apparently, Dublin girls always sit in the back of the car? I'd feel awful rude doing that if I was on my own!

I always sit in the back seat

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

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