Re: Taxi driver's

On Jun 2, 11:32 am, "Skitt" <skit...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
grusl wrote:
"Skitt" wrote:
grusl wrote:
"Amethyst Deceiver" wrote:
woll...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Prai Jei wrote:
One taxi driver I encountered in Edinburgh had considerable
difficulty with
the concept of a receipt and, on being asked politely a few
times, kept mumbling what I took to be obscenities in his own
language. In the end we
gave up. Perhaps he was scared he would get his apostrophe's in
the wrong position's and so make the receipt invalid.

Whenever I've asked for a receipt in a cab, the driver has handed
me a preprinted "receipt" form with the expectation that I would
fill it out myself.

My boss travels a lot with a local taxi firm - they gave her a
wodge of receipts and she fills them in herself.

In the Middle East and South Asia drivers often ask me what amount
I'd like them to put on the receipt.

Those are cultures where "sticking it to the man" is expected. Everyone
is a cheat. Lovely people, just not trustworthy.

Then untrustworthiness must be a universal cultural trait. All
countries have informal markets.

Some more than others. OK -- trust but verify, I say.

I have been shocked at the "ethics" of some of the newcomers to this land,
not that all the natives are trustworthy.

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Skitt (in Hayward, California)http://home.comcast.net/~skitt99/

Trust me.

I trust you, since you remind me of the lawn sign that read, "BEWARE
OF THE DOG, and the cat's not trustworthy either."
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