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Going the wrong way.

Earlier this week I had a passenger who wanted to go the southwest corner of the city. I proceeded to drive him in that direction but when I made my last turn to head west to the final intersection he challenged me, saying I was going in the wrong direction. He wanted me to go east.

I told him I was not going in the wrong direction. That, in fact, I grew up in this area and knew exactly where I was going. when we got to his destination he appoligized saying he didn't understand how he became confused.

On my way back to the taxi stand I realized neither one of us was correct. It didn't matter whether I turned right *or* left at the crucial intersection.

Can anyone tell me why?

....er pardon me, I meant to write apologize or apologise. Spellig is not one of my strong pints.

maybe because right or left, you would have still been in the south-west corner of the city ? somehow I think that is going to be too simplistic

Just to say being a brit a long while ago Cabbies would an had tried with me to take the long route?? And funny went back to U.K. a few yrs back the ice cream dude tried to charge me double for cone cos of my accent???

yeah, Ive had that kind of thing happen too - just last week I said to a cab driver that I wanted to go to my destination - by the short route

Funny hey??? When you know the name of the game

sure is I got ripped off one time in Amsterdam, got charged about double for the meal (before euros) and it was the first and last time -

Amsterdam awsum????Well for me saw angels?????A few too many vod an pure musshed orange ???with the EX factor??

yep - musshed everything over there - had a great time

Oh yeah one bar remember going in with my Ex?? Lots of bald men???gargoils and angels???and peanuts on table thats my whole memory???

Presumably the "crucial intersection" was the destination so any direction from there was the wrong way??

Who knows????When your with the one you love and odd really odd things happen okay?

the sun shines on you at night and a gap in the rain appears just for the two of you.

Yeah, the beer is all so strong as well as everything else

And whole oranges thrown into machine???? Vodka and the whole orange well say no more

Say no more??? We'll remember no more!!!

No more sonny

Sonny? How sweet, Sweetie!

No, what I was actually thinking was that, since the earth is round even if I had turned left instead of right I would have been heading towards the same destination. I would, however, have had to circumnavigate the globe in order to get him to his destination that way and I think he might have grumbled about the cost.

As it turned out, the fare was about $11. If I had gone the other way.... let's see, where's my calculator.... assuming the circumference of the earth is 25000 miles or 25k * 1.6 = about 40,000 km.... and assuming there *was* a road all the way round, it would have cost him 40,000 km * $1.40 per km = $56,003 for the same trip.

Man, I would love to have a fare like that. Any takers?

Your "intersection was circular highway or 'loop' as we call it here in the states alot. If you take a left at the top of the loop you are going west and take a right and you are going east. Either way you can get to the southwest section. Taking a left gets you there quicker. (Note: the opposite is true if you were at the bottom of the loop.)