Taxi men and the ol' "I have no change"

ahnow · 23-11-2012 2:21pm #1

What do you do when you're in a mad rush, go to pay the man and he claims he has no change for your 50/20 euro note? This has happened to me a holy heap of times!

bogmanfan · 23-11-2012 2:22pm

Hasn't happened to me, but if it did I would refuse to pay him until he gets some change.

joydivision · 23-11-2012 2:24pm

Point to mmy penis and tell him to pay me .

SeaFields · 23-11-2012 2:25pm

Yeah that or the whole looking for his change for 5 minutes hoping you'll get out. Feck off. I want my change!

Tombo2001 · 23-11-2012 2:25pm

And they think they are doing you a big favour when they dont charge you for the spin from outside your gaff to the local spar and back so you can get the change....

UDP · 23-11-2012 2:26pm

Legally there is nothing to say they have to give you change.

curlygirly · 23-11-2012 2:27pm

only happened to me once when i wanted to pay with a 50 - and he said " no worries, get me next time" and gave me the 8quid ride or free.

RainMaker · 23-11-2012 2:30pm

curlygirly wrote: »

only happened to me once when i wanted to pay with a 50 - and he said " no worries, get me next time" and gave me the 8quid ride or free.

Did you tell him you were on the dole? :P

Lando Griffin · 23-11-2012 2:30pm

Just open their ash tray they have loads of change in there usually least they forget.

Grayson · 23-11-2012 2:31pm

UDP wrote: »

Legally there is nothing to say they have to give you change.

I don't think they have any signs saying "exact change only"

donegal_road · 23-11-2012 2:39pm

before you get in to the taxi, ask them do they have the change of a 50/20

goose2005 · 23-11-2012 2:40pm

Tear off a quarter of it and give him the rest, that'll soften his cough

Where To · 23-11-2012 2:41pm

Yep, it's the laziest thing in the world not to be prepared for making change before you start.

If I was a customer I wouldn't pay him, if I was the driver I wouldn't charge.

buck65 · 23-11-2012 2:42pm

I would have him shot.

Havermeyer · 23-11-2012 2:45pm

The odd once or twice that I've given them a €50 note I've had the whole "Is that all you have? Have you not got any smaller?". Which I can understand is probably a pain in the hole, but tough shít, that's all I have at the time.

However, when they start doing the 'delivery man' of having to look in every pocket, in their shoes, under the seats to give me my change, that annoys the hell out of me.

seamus · 23-11-2012 2:48pm

nummnutts wrote: »

However, when they start doing the 'delivery man' of having to look in every pocket, in their shoes, under the seats to give me my change, that annoys the hell out of me.

Clearly the most efficient way of keeping change in your vehicle is to have it all mixed up and spread into little batches around the car in the centre console, the ashtray, your pockets, and so on. Means you can easily reach some change no matter where you are.

I refuse to believe that you can't buy a little device for about €30, much like the old bus conductor's yoke, that will hold and dispense coins.

Edit: Oh look, there is!

Havermeyer · 23-11-2012 2:52pm

seamus wrote: »

Clearly the most efficient way of keeping change in your vehicle is to have it all mixed up and spread into little batches around the car in the centre console, the ashtray, your pockets, and so on. Means you can easily reach some change no matter where you are.[/url]

And there was me thinking that taxi men would always be sitting in the driver's seat.

phasers · 23-11-2012 3:35pm

When my Dad's caught with no change he rounds the fare down. It's not the passenger's fault that he hasn't got change like. The driver should always accommodate the customer.

Also it's not that easy to always have change in fairness. It's like in a shop, you get two tossers buying a newspaper with a 50 euro note and your float is wiped out.

Hippies! · 23-11-2012 4:06pm

It's the height of ignorance to board a taxi with a €50 note imo.

spank_inferno · 23-11-2012 4:11pm

Are dublin taxis not all credit / laser card ready?

Or is that just certain companies?

Where To · 23-11-2012 4:12pm

Hippies! wrote: »

It's the height of ignorance to board a taxi with a €50 note imo.

No it isn't.

tin79 · 23-11-2012 4:14pm

Hippies! wrote: »

It's the height of ignorance to board a taxi with a €50 note imo.

Your experience of ignorance must be very limited.

mitosis · 23-11-2012 4:14pm

Never encountered such a problem. Taxi is under no legal obligation to provide change in any case - same as a shop.

xzanti · 23-11-2012 4:15pm

Hippies! wrote: »

It's the height of ignorance to board a taxi with a €50 note imo.

Do you know what the word ignorance means?

Where To · 23-11-2012 4:16pm

mitosis wrote: »

Never encountered such a problem. Taxi is under no legal obligation to provide change in any case - same as a shop.

Would you spend your hard earned in a shop that wouldn't give you change?

ronan45 · 23-11-2012 4:16pm

SeaFields wrote: »

Yeah that or the whole looking for his change for 5 minutes hoping you'll get out. Feck off. I want my change!

Taxi man
8.75 please

I hand him 10 euro

Taxi Man
Proceeds to rummage for change which he has in hand but all of a sudden he cant process figures and coins and begins to count coins and murmer somthing under breath like he has to do a big sum and your putting him under shocking stress all for a euro. All the while PREYING you just say ah its ok mate keep it.

mitosis · 23-11-2012 4:17pm

Where To wrote: »

Would you spend your hard earned in a shop that wouldn't give you change?

Of course not. Why would you ask?

PizzamanIRL · 23-11-2012 4:18pm

Thinly veiled "I carry around notes greater than €20 with me" thread.

Rub it in why don't ya.

suicide_circus · 23-11-2012 4:19pm

SeaFields wrote: »

Yeah that or the whole looking for his change for 5 minutes hoping you'll get out. Feck off. I want my change!

Once they start that shyte, i sit back in my seat and relax, they wont get a cent tip out of me with that carry on

knucklehead6 · 23-11-2012 4:22pm

Hippies! wrote: »

It's the height of ignorance to board a taxi with a €50 note imo.

if your fare is routinely in excess of €40, depending on what part of the city you start from i think it'd be a tad stupid and ignorant to NOT start off with at least €50

Havermeyer · 23-11-2012 4:22pm

Hippies! wrote: »

It's the height of ignorance to board a taxi with a €50 note imo.

What if I have a €20 and a €50? Should I take the bus instead?

My a**e am I leaving my €50 outside the taxi.

juan.kerr · 23-11-2012 4:22pm

Hippies! wrote: »

It's the height of ignorance to board a taxi with a €50 note imo.

If a taxi driver doesn't have change of a €50 then he shouldn't be taking fares.

suicide_circus · 23-11-2012 4:26pm

Off topic but my gf was on a work night out last winter, she left the nightclub to come home cause some clown was hassling her. We live a 15min walk from the club but she was nervous walking through town alone at 2am, in heels and freezing cold. She went to the taxi rank and the first two drivers refused the fare on the basis it was too small.

mickdw · 23-11-2012 4:29pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

Off topic but my gf was on a work night out last winter, she left the nightclub to come home cause some clown was hassling her. We live a 15min walk from the club but she was nervous walking through town alone at 2am, in heels and freezing cold. She went to the taxi rank and the first two drivers refused the fare on the basis it was too small.

Dickheads

patdshaker · 23-11-2012 4:39pm

ahnow wrote: »

What do you do when you're in a mad rush, go to pay the man and he claims he has no change for your 50/20 euro note? This has happened to me a holy heap of times!

The intelligent taxi drivers will leave you off the fare or part of the fare and throw out a business card. Happened a housmate last year and she insisted that we use that taxi for the rest of the year.
4 full taxi spins a night @ e2 a head x 20 weeks = e640
Not bad coin for being a nice lad, none of the Iish lads would have done that for us.:pac:

WoollyRedHat · 23-11-2012 4:43pm

xzanti wrote: »

Do you know what the word ignorance means?

I haven't a bleeding notion.

smash · 23-11-2012 4:50pm

Anyone use the Halo App? I use it a bit and I've noticed a lot of taxi drivers don't add the tip when you get your receipts from halo. Must be to avoid the extra commission.

Emeraldy Pebbles · 23-11-2012 5:07pm

ahnow wrote: »

What do you do when you're in a mad rush, go to pay the man and he claims he has no change for your 50/20 euro note? This has happened to me a holy heap of times!

This has genuinely never happened to me.

Duggys Housemate · 23-11-2012 5:49pm

ahnow wrote: »

What do you do when you're in a mad rush, go to pay the man and he claims he has no change for your 50/20 euro note? This has happened to me a holy heap of times!

UDP wrote: »

Legally there is nothing to say they have to give you change.

mitosis wrote: »

Never encountered such a problem. Taxi is under no legal obligation to provide change in any case - same as a shop.

Although it is rare to find this attitude in London, I did once. Took a short fare from Baker St. to Paddington for about £8, and when he arrives there he doesnt have change of a £20 - you never see £50 in the UK. So I say I dont have the exact fare. He hesitates - if I am in a rush for the train he would expect to get the £20 I suppose - I say, nope, get some change. He whines he has to go into a shop. I say he should. So in he pops, and I get my change. Angry guy.

Thing is, of course, he would expect the shop to have change. He gave them his £20, for a bag of crisps or something. Thats because shop keepers run businesses properly and have change all the time, the only businesses where you are given a hard time on legal currency are taxis.

As for those of you who say that you dont have to provide change in a shop- I can honestly say that that has never happened to me, nor in a bar, nor anywhere outside a taxi and I have been on the earth for more than 30 years. If the float is getting low then go to the bank which is easier if you are driving around than stuck in a shop. I worked in a pub through college and we emptied coins into the tills every morning, and got more if a lot of people had no change.

However you must be wrong on whether tender can be refused. You can probably legally say you have no change prior to selling something - which, as I said I have never seen - but if you charge people post-service, like a restaurant etc, you can't charge €50 for something which cost far less because thats all the customer has. Then you legally do have to provide the change. Taxis charge after the service is provided.

Hurricane Carter · 23-11-2012 5:53pm

Hippies! wrote: »

It's the height of ignorance to board a taxi with a €50 note imo.

This post is the height of stupidity.

Grayson · 23-11-2012 5:54pm

Hippies! wrote: »

It's the height of ignorance to board a taxi with a €50 note imo.

Because you never find a bank machine that only has 50's.

Edit to add. Those machines are a pet hate of mine. Especially the boi ones that don't tell you till the end of the transaction. That's after making a loud whirring noise for two minutes. Then they just chuck your card back and say transaction cancelled.

shockwave · 23-11-2012 6:00pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

Off topic but my gf was on a work night out last winter, she left the nightclub to come home cause some clown was hassling her. We live a 15min walk from the club but she was nervous walking through town alone at 2am, in heels and freezing cold. She went to the taxi rank and the first two drivers refused the fare on the basis it was too small.

Isnt it illegal for them to refuse a fare like that?

AnonoBoy · 23-11-2012 6:08pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

Off topic but my gf was on a work night out last winter, she left the nightclub to come home cause some clown was hassling her. We live a 15min walk from the club but she was nervous walking through town alone at 2am, in heels and freezing cold. She went to the taxi rank and the first two drivers refused the fare on the basis it was too small.

Honestly in that case she should take plate numbers and report them to the regulator.

General Zod · 23-11-2012 6:24pm

Hailo is wonderful, especially when you can set it up to take the fare directly from your account.

Everyone should start using it.

miamee · 23-11-2012 6:28pm

Hippies! wrote: »

It's the height of ignorance to board a taxi with a €50 note imo.

Depends on how much your fare is! If it was €25+ I don't think it is but for something under a tenner, possibly so.

Duggys Housemate · 23-11-2012 6:30pm

miamee wrote: »

Depends on how much your fare is! If it was €25+ I don't think it is but for something under a tenner, possibly so.

what about if the taxi driver takes that €50 and goes into a cafe to spend less than a tenner, is that rude?

Lenin Skynard · 23-11-2012 6:32pm

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

what about if the taxi driver takes that €50 and goes into a cafe to spend less than a tenner, is that rude?

You think taxi drivers have the same size float as a cafe?

Duggys Housemate · 23-11-2012 6:37pm

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

You think taxi drivers have the same size float as a cafe?

I think they are running a business and should have the same float as a cafe.

later12 · 23-11-2012 6:38pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

Off topic but my gf was on a work night out last winter, she left the nightclub to come home cause some clown was hassling her. We live a 15min walk from the club but she was nervous walking through town alone at 2am, in heels and freezing cold. She went to the taxi rank and the first two drivers refused the fare on the basis it was too small.

Pretty absurd when you consider that it costs €4.10 to open the door of a taxi before you even go anywhere. Thank you, Taxi Regulator.

Lenin Skynard · 23-11-2012 6:42pm

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

I think they are running a business and should have the same float as a cafe.

Taxis and cafes are quite different types of businesses actually. It would be very stupid for a taxi driver to keep a huge amount of cash in his cab which could easily be robbed at the next fare.

DylanII · 23-11-2012 6:47pm

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

Taxis and cafes are quite different types of businesses actually. It would be very stupid for a taxi driver to keep a huge amount of cash in his cab which could easily be robbed at the next fare.

€50 isn't all that much. Most fast food delivery people carry around over €100

Taxi men and the ol' "I have no change"

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