Taxi Etiquette

[chef]

Got in a taxi last night to take me the 2 mile journey home, fare was 8EUR something, opened my wallet and all I had was 50 and 100 notes. Taxi driver didn't have enough change..

what are you supposed to do in that situation?

I had the money to pay, he simply didn't have enough for the change, i'm not going to give him 50EUR for a 8EUR taxi but then he wasn't going to allow me to get a free ride. Shops were closed, no petrol station nearby.

Ended up getting some change from in the house to pay, but that's unusual as I rarely have much change lying around, what if I hadn't have had it?

[shaunbhoy]

Got in a taxi last night to take me the 2 mile journey home, fare was 8EUR something, opened my wallet and all I had was 50 and 100 notes. Taxi driver didn't have enough change..

what are you supposed to do in that situation?

I had the money to pay, he simply didn't have enough for the change, i'm not going to give him 50EUR for a 8EUR taxi but then he wasn't going to allow me to get a free ride. Shops were closed, no petrol station nearby.

Ended up getting some change from in the house to pay, but that's unusual as I rarely have much change lying around, what if I hadn't have had it?

What.....no tip?
Stingebag!!

[MarillionFan]

Got in a taxi last night to take me the 2 mile journey home, fare was 8EUR something, opened my wallet and all I had was 50 and 100 notes. Taxi driver didn't have enough change..

what are you supposed to do in that situation?

I had the money to pay, he simply didn't have enough for the change, i'm not going to give him 50EUR for a 8EUR taxi but then he wasn't going to allow me to get a free ride. Shops were closed, no petrol station nearby.

Ended up getting some change from in the house to pay, but that's unusual as I rarely have much change lying around, what if I hadn't have had it?

I would have walked in to the house and said, 'Sorry mate you'll have to go and get some change'. Let him drive round looking for a garage without you.

[doodab]

There is probably some law that says you aren't allowed to get into a taxi without having a note of roughly the right size to pay. You are lucky that you didn't get a rubber gloving from the boys in green.

[chef]

I would have walked in to the house and said, 'Sorry mate you'll have to go and get some change'. Let him drive round looking for a garage without you.

my German is nowhere near that good

[Sysman]

A golden rule dating back to the days when I used to use a dodgy private hire company:

Always have the exact change for your ride home from the pub, or you'll get short changed. A typical trick was to inflate the price if they sensed you'd had a few too many, so you could simply bash them the normal fare and say toodle-pip.

This was in the UK, mind, but old habits die hard.

[BlasterBates]

I find that ridiculous that he can't change 50 EUR note. I certainly wouldn't have let him have 50 EUR, and I would have told him off for not filling up his wallet. I mean if he didn't have 2 Euros that would have been OK I would have offered him 10, which actually I now wonder whether this was his intention. But if he couldn't change notes that would be totally out of order. Sort of thing you might expect from a bus driver but not a taxi driver.

[MarillionFan]

my German is nowhere near that good

Use sign language. I believe the agreed universal signs for 'Can you go and get some change I'll wait indoors' are

Little wink
Tongue in the side of your mouth with a repeated movement with your clenched hand moving in unison with your tongue
Side nod of the head towards the house
Little hop & skip to the house, little look over shoulder, teapot motion with hand and quick pucker of lips.

HTH

MF

[fullyautomatix]

For 8 Euro could you not have bartered a blowjob instead ?

[doodab]

For 8 Euro could you not have bartered a blowjob instead ?

For that price I would expect a ride home and a blowjob.