At the Cab Stand (20)
....er pardon me, I meant to write apologize or apologise. Spellig is not one of my strong pints.
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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 
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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???
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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
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Funny hey??? When you know the name of the game
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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 - ------ This thread is Archived ------
Amsterdam awsum????Well for me saw angels?????A few too many vod an pure musshed orange ???with the EX factor??
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Presumably the "crucial intersection" was the destination so any direction from there was the wrong way??
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the sun shines on you at night and a gap in the rain appears just for the two of you.
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Yeah, the beer is all so strong as well as everything else
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Say no more??? We'll remember no more!!!
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Sonny? How sweet, Sweetie! 
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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?
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?
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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.)
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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?