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The biggest bitch ever to get into my cab

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BY NIGHT CABBIE | nightcabbie at wweek dot com

[December 7th, 2005] The biggest bitch ever to get into my cab was a teeny girl who had to have been drinking on a fake ID. The whole way from Old Town to Lloyd Center, she was saying she was going to be sick. I told her to switch places with her friend at the window; she refused.

Finally, we got to the Taco Bell, and I again invited her to move, emphasizing that it was not optional. She refused again. She started bobbing her head back in forth in that gesture that always reminds me of a pigeon: "What I NEED to do right now is not MOVE at ALL." She actually did the "talk to the hand" gesture, too.

"Look, why can't you just move over to the window?!" She started yelling about how she needed to just be still, "and not MOVE one MOTHERFUCKING INCH."

"Sweetheart, you move your skinny ass six inches to the right or you'll be moving it six feet in whatever direction I throw you." Her friends looked like deer in headlights.

"Goddammit, I work in customer service, and I KNOW you can't talk to me like that, and if you keep talking to me like that I'll see that YOU get fired."

"Fuck you. Try it. Get out of the cab and throw up in the parking lot."

What killed me was the sense of entitlement radiating off of all of them. Damn kids. Yeah, I know, next I'll be telling them to get off my lawn.












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Ah, customer service at its bestThank you for not going that pathetic corporate apology approach that sounds like one kissing someone's ass constantly. Some fares may not be worth the few bucks...

Story Forum Archive, Dec 7th, 2005 12:00am
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The biggest bitch ever to get into my cabAs a young GI in Germany we, shockingly, drank on occasion. So there I was in the back seat of a taxi with two other GI's. The one in the middle got s...

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The biggest bitch ever to get into my cabI just politely tell my customers that the fee for barfing in my taxi is $100.00 if you barf on the outside of the cab, yet still on the cab, bargain pr...

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