Altercation with a London Cabbie
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If all these stories about "the knowledge" are right, they have to get the job in the first place. Tbh I don't think whether the route was longer or shorter is particularly relevant as the behaviour of the driver was completely out of order.
Do they have to get through 'the knowledge' to get the cab or just that fancy badge that not all of them have?
I've been in black cabs with tomtom! Quite surprising really!
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spose you might have passed the knowledge but remember new streets are built every week, roads and areas change and i doubt even a londong cabbie will know EVERY street
btw knowledge in London is probably the hardest cabbie test in the world
Glasgow here is 40 multiple choice questions from a bank of 100 possible questions(you can peruse these at your leisure)
100 questions to learn the right A,B,C, or D for not exactly difficult
I'll side with everyone else, and say report him. Not really on, to be honest.
On a slightly lighter note, I had a very helpful Edinburgh cabbie on Thursday night - having just had my head bounced off a lamppost by a group of chavs at around 3am, he picked me up, took me where I was going and wouldn't take the fare when I offered it, just wished me a good night. Didn't realise til I got in quite how much my forehead was bleeding
but was incredibly grateful to him nonetheless. Another case of still being nice people around
On a slightly lighter note, I had a very helpful Edinburgh cabbie on Thursday night - having just had my head bounced off a lamppost by a group of chavs at around 3am, he picked me up, took me where I was going and wouldn't take the fare when I offered it, just wished me a good night. Didn't realise til I got in quite how much my forehead was bleeding
but was incredibly grateful to him nonetheless. Another case of still being nice people around 
deps where you are really. In hartlepool you get the odd ****** who tries to take a stupid route, and in newcastle you'll often find the robbing ***** that have a rank outside central station are robbers too, as if their fairs were not already pricey enough!
Theres a little cutthrough that goes pretty much to my door which saves having to drive quite a bit of the way(otherwise they take you right round and back down on yourself again) but most 'forget' or 'dont know'
Or take the other way just because it avoids the arguement by approaching from the other side.I like tipping taxi drivers, if they dont take the pee and are friendly and chatty i always do. If theres ever a one who does rip me off or is a nob i leave him a smelly present on my way out
LOL tell her to carry a potato around in her bag incase it happens again.
No harm done.
Cabbies hate being told where to go. I always negociate the price before I get in they hate that too but it let's them know I know where I'm going and the correct price.
To be a licensed black cab driver you have to do the knowledge. Otherwise you're just a minicab essentially. As for satnav, my Dad has one in his cab, but it's mainly there for jobs out of London. Trust me, if you've done the knowledge you do not need a satnav around London.
As for negotiating prices, black cabbies do not have to do that. You should pay what is on the meter.
As for being told where to go, I think most of the time it's the person in the back who thinks they know best that annoys the cabbies. Black cabs use a lot of tiny roads you don't even know exist. 99% of the time the route will be quicker but I don't think people tend to realise that. Though in this case it was just to get more money. Most people avoid Oxford street like the plague. It's just a car park for buses.
And vanilla, why the cabbie hate? We aren't all ***** you know
And most of the taxis around Birmingham ask you to give them directions, because they have absolutely no idea.
I had to get my A-Z out for one of these guys and physically show him where I wanted to go. It was less than 20 minutes away and he still didn't know.
Reporting him for attempted kidnap and then ring the cab firm and complain about the trauma it has caused her and you demand a sum adding up to a nice couple of zero'sto make you feel better
Isnt False Inprisonment actionable per se, so she wouldn't need to suffer any trauma, the act itself is enough, even if it didnt cause her any trauma.