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

The Big Red Button

bluewolf wrote: »

I always sit in the back seat

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!!

gremha

Had one offer me a swig from his naggin of vodka, I declined & he took a swig himself. He then asked me & my mate if we wanted to come back & do his misses while he watched, he wouldn't get involved, just watch. We declined & got out at the next set of lights.

Was about 25 years ago & we were teenagers, horny but not crazy.

Dr Strange

During my first year (1999) in Ireland a colleague and I went to visit Glasnevin Cemetery. We took a taxi to get there and after hearing our accents he asked where we're from:

Me: Germany
Driver: Ah, Germany.... Hitler had a great army, so he had. A fine army.
Me+colleague: Uhm, sure...

Embarrassed silence.

Tom

Hobbes wrote: »

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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.

No offence intended but...do you look like the sort of person who was likely to rob him? Might have been a warning to you

Boom_Bap

My oddest taxi exxperiences have been in Amman, Jordan.

Yapping away to a taxi driver who had decent English, when I asked for a reciept at the end of the journey he all of a sudden didnt speak English and at the same time was hiding his receipt book.
I didnt have a problem with being overcharged, which I'm guessing is what prompted him to lose his voice and reciept book, I just wanted a receipt to get it covered on my expenses!

Another guy didnt speak English at all and my Arabic aint great. So I got the concierge at my hotel to tell the cabbie where I was going and all was good. But along the way there was traffic and the guy tried a short cut. But, it didnt work out to plan and he just stopped the car and pointed at the meter. I could see the building I was going off in the distance and was telling him that's where I need to go. He refused, obviously didnt know how to get there. So I had to get out and walk........and it was the only day that I've ever experienced rain in the middle east as well.

ghostchant

Had a 30 minute conversation about atomic force microscopy with a taxi driver one time. Can't say I was expecting that one.

castletownman

Most of my experiences have occurred in Dublin.

Got talking to one lad who sent me via bluetooth some midget porn!

Got talking to an African taxi driver who claimed to be a cousin of former Bolton and Hull player Jay Jay Okocha!

Dan133269

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.

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!

Dravokivich wrote: »

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:

Well, how long have you been in Ireland for?

YFlyer

gremha wrote: »

Had one offer me a swig from his naggin of vodka, I declined & he took a swig himself. He then asked me & my mate if we wanted to come back & do his misses while he watched, he wouldn't get involved, just watch. We declined & got out at the next set of lights.

Was about 25 years ago & we were teenagers, horny but not crazy.

Was it Fred West?

ReacherCreature

Nothing weird just some really great stories, the kind you have that makes you wish you were driving a 100 miles somewhere.

One guy told me about when he was working abroad. He emigrated to England at 17 or 18, slept rough some of the time. Then he had an interview to work on an oil rig off the coast of Brazil. The job was for a welding position. He bluffed his way into it and said he was an expert welder. They were impressed and took him on. He need two French men to teach him how to weld and he learned everything on the spot. The taxi guy made loads of money and moved back home. Bought a house, has a wife and now some kids. It was a remarkable 10 minutes of story; went from being homeless and young up to being fairly well off and having a family and is now content.

Another was a GAA nut. And I mean he was crazy into it. He was analysing formations and schemes that the Kildare football team ran and how that clashed with the opposing team. Just crazy in-depth analysis. That said, he was intelligent and again, you'd listen to him.

One taxi driver was telling me about a woman he knew who married a Saudi. He was the perfect gentleman. He blew the whole family away with his kindness and mannerisms. They married and she moved to Saudi Arabia with him. It was a façade though - she was raped by her husband and his brother and the lifestyle was completely different from what she expected or was told. She left Saudi Arabia. Her husband followed her and put on the charm offensive again. The family weren't having any of it. Her father and her brothers got together and beat the living shít out of the Saudi. Absolutely destroyed him - tore strips out of the lad. He stayed away.

Had an interesting, albeit strange conversation with one guy about Hitler's euthanisa and sterilisation policies and their potential relevance in today's society.

Funny conversation with a guy who loved Liam Neeson in Taken. "He was a mad cúnt wasn't he?" His delivery was perfect and I nearly died laughing.

Some stories may be made up or full of crap/inaccuracies but they're a joy to listen to and the drivers have perfected their story telling. Obviously not every trip was like that, some are quiet and do the job or some make no effort. But for the entertaining ones, you'd wish you were driving all over the country with them.

shawnee

DoesNotCompute wrote: »

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

Listening to a stramger telling you all their woes for 15 mins for free.... even better value , tbh

Orando Broom

I had a guy driving me around who INSISTED David Beckham was paid €140m A YEAR! The dunce. The cretinous dunce. Couldn't be told he was wrong.

jme2010

Had an eastern European taxi man ask me, if I'd like to hear some music.

I said yeah, he then produced a little harmonica and started to play while in traffic.

He wasn't bad either

Mr Benevolent

mrs crilly wrote: »

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

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

RichieC

We had a character one night, He was African anyway but not sure from where. he asked us if we liked music and we were all like "yea, just getting back from a concert"

"Ah yes, I like music too"... *sticks tape into player* Return of the mack comes on, when it was over, what comes on next? Return of the mack again... ad infinitum.

I actually laughed the whole way home tbh.. it was a classic.

DEFTLEFTHAND

There's a guy in Limerick we used to get, we nicknamed him the Captain as he loved to relay his days in the Merchant Navy to us, particularly his sexual exploits both male and female.

Adamantium

Got a taxi one friday afternoon in Galway, decent sort of taxi driver told me that communism was the best thing ever, giving numerous examples of it, with none of the downsides.

Asked me to join the communist party of Ireland and gave me two cards, one for the party and another for the car

Another bit of anecdotal information came in the form of another taxi driver in the same city, who claimed the full moon each month caused A&E wards to fill up to the max, due to the moon bringing out the primal animal in each of us (as opposed to the drink), there might be some truth in that one!

Jimmy Two Times

Few years ago I jumped into the back of a taxi with the missus in Parliament Street.

Driver was listening to one ot those audio book type thingys and continued to do so for the whole length of the journey back to D5.

It was a Mills and Boon " Bodice Ripper " type story with the soft core action being described in great detail.

Pair of us didn't know where to look.

mccarte2

A Nigerian driver called Moses discussed the benefits and pitfalls of Kilkenny GAA's strategy of not caring about Football with me for about 15 mins home one night.

A taxi driver in Malta spent 10 mins convincing me he was the owner of the a horse that would win the Maltese Derby the following year.

General Zod

a 45 minute lecture on the benefits of aloe vera.

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