Before I start, I will acknowledge that being a city taxi driver must be a really shit job most of the time. If you work during the week, you could be cruising around for hours before some rude bloke in a suit demands to be taken on a two minute drive and then pays with his corporate card. If you work at the weekend, the chances are you’ll get verbally abused and maybe even vomited on by that same rude bloke, this time he’s got three of his mates in tow but at least they’re going on a good half hour trip, it’s after midnight and they’re paying in cash.
In most cities, for most drivers, taxi driving is a stop-gap on the way to bigger and better things. But that’s still no excuse for being a total and utter weirdo. All of the following taxi journeys took place in central Sydney:
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