Did you hear the one about the NYC cabbie who returned a suitcase full of diamond rings to a Texas woman who only gave him a 30-cent tip on a $10.70 fare?
No, I am serious. It really happened here in NYC. Then, after the cabbie went to some time and expense to return the loot, she gave him a check for $100, snort. Some people just don't get it do they??
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In a recent article on CNN, it was mentioned that while GPS navigation is becoming quite "the" thing to have, London cabbies want none of it.
Once when i was in a taxi, the driver was attempting to make conversation and asked what I did. I usually try to avoid the subject with some people, because when i say "I study the inner ear" a lot of people feel the need to unload their medical problems regarding earwax upon me.
Over at BLDGBLOG, Geoffrey makes an astute observation about how the latest consumer technologies have a way of becoming metaphors for the mind.
After the Sunday service in Westminster Chapel, where worshippers were exhorted to wage "the culture war" in the Second World World War spirit of Sir Winston Churchill, cabbie James McLean delivered his verdict on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
What a cad.
sadly, once again, it doesn't pay to be decent and nice. and it pays to be a jerk.
Oh, I don't know. He got paid by knowing he's better than she is. And she gets to think about him and what he did.
I know, it doesn't balance. But still, who feels better about himself at the end of the day (deliberate use of pronoun here)?
Probably the woman, Ridger. She's the one who saved a bunch of money thanks to that idiot cab driver who brought back her jewelry! See, jerks don't think like nice people do. They think like jerks. She's happy as a clam.