Torontoist: TTC Strike Avoided, Conservative Election Fraud Scandal, and Hooray For The Toronto FC Not Sucking

jaja007

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:04:27 -0500

My favourite was the cabby who, when I asked him to go from Bloor & Spadina to Dundas & Jane started to head south because he didn't know that Dundas crossed north of Bloor.

reetdoontoon

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:27:29 -0500

did he get off of his phone to do that? probably not.

Lauriemc

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:45:49 -0500

I just had an experience like this last week with a taxi driver! I didn't tip him because he drove me on a 5-dollar detour (his doing not mine!) and then drove up the shoulder of the 401 to cut people off. I appreciate he was trying to make up for his detour but I expect the taxi to obey the rules of the road. It felt weird not to tip but I was really disappointed in his driving.

Marc Lostracco

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:12:23 -0500

It should be noted, however, that if you tell them a route, that's what they're supposed to stick with. Plus, from what I gather with the gazillion taxi rides I've taken, cab drivers don't like to be stuck in traffic any more than you do. The money is in cab occupation + long distances, not sitting still in a traffic jam.

Damon Kemp

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:50:34 -0500

LOL I thought I was the only one who tipped like that. I don't appreciate incompetence in cabbies. Part of their job is to know the most efficient and safest way to get to their customer's destination. So if they want to try to screw me over they can forget a tip. My first visit to Toronto in 2000, I had a cabbie argue with me about not providing him a tip. I had to gently remind him that almost hitting pedestrians in the crosswalk basically negated him getting any tip from me.

sloanbuller

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:33:00 -0500

I've only recently started noticing cabbies pulling that kind of slow route nonsense; I guess I had better luck my first few years in the city. So guess what? You want to be a dick and take a route with the most left hand turns at the slowest lights? You don't get a tip. Bad cabbies (and not all cabbies are bad) who pull that kind of stuff need to remember that the service they are providing me is a safe, efficient ride to my destination and if I didn't get that, either because you took the long way or because you nearly killed three cyclist getting me there, I don't tip. Are enough people exercising this right as a consumer?

triplexpac

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:34:49 -0500

I'd sure like to go to a Toronto FC game, too bad they're all sold out. This is like the Leafs all over again.

Karen Whaley

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:08:34 -0500

My favourite cabbie ploy? When they ask, "So do you want to take College Street?" and you reply, "Sure, that's the most direct route to where I need to go." And then you get on College and traffic is at a standstill because there is construction. And then you say to the guy, "It's totally gridlocked! Why did you take College?" and they say, "That's the street you told me to take." "You didn't tell me that there was construction!" "You didn't know?" Classic.