That's quite the story. I have a family member that spent some time on a taxi and the stories are much the same. Assholes aplenty.
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fdghrtbrt 2 hours ago [-]
Jarring to see a white person doing this job.
I saw this not because I think certain types of jobs should be done by certain types of people, but because that's what I see happening. So even before reading I knew this guy was going to be unusual in all sorts of ways.
Nice read, thanks for sharing.
ndsipa_pomu 37 minutes ago [-]
Haven't visited Oslo, but I thought Norway was largely a white-skinned population. Why would it be jarring to see a white person doing any kind of job, or are you referring to some kind of job division racism?
micromacrofoot 21 minutes ago [-]
It's the classic racism/classism combo... a lot of taxi drivers are foreigners for example because it can be a stressful and low-paying job at the end of the day.
selimthegrim 25 minutes ago [-]
In a lot of US tourist cities, I would say that’s who is predominantly doing it
micromacrofoot 24 minutes ago [-]
Yes, oddly compared to taxis my experience in the US with pedicabs is that they're almost all white men driving. More of a freewheeling low responsibility type of job rather than providing for a family type situation. I wonder what sort of social shift resulted in this?
xnx 1 hours ago [-]
Quite different than the scam pedicabs that operate in US cities now.
ndsipa_pomu 35 minutes ago [-]
They're popular in London too. The scam seems to be that if tourists don't arrange the price beforehand, it'll be arbitrarily inflated - they don't run a meter like a licensed taxi.
raddan 1 hours ago [-]
What’s the scam?
Waterluvian 1 hours ago [-]
They’ll end up charging you like $120 for a 10 min trip by just being deceptive and evasive about the fee structure.
jacquesm 30 minutes ago [-]
Then you give them the finger and walk away.
Waterluvian 8 minutes ago [-]
It's not that easy. He had those little chains strung across the side exits and wouldn't remove them until I paid. I told him they don't let you out of Canada with that kind of cash but he didn't believe me and laid siege to my day while eating a slice of pizza like a taco. The worst thing was that this was my second mishap with non-combustion locomotion that day. ...I still swear that was not the real Secretariat and that Central Park isn't in New Jersey.
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I saw this not because I think certain types of jobs should be done by certain types of people, but because that's what I see happening. So even before reading I knew this guy was going to be unusual in all sorts of ways.
Nice read, thanks for sharing.