All the cabbies around my area are pretty good. I get in, tell him where to go/which exits to take, and BAM ... i'm home.. no talking, no bullshitting.. it's sweet.
THOUGH!
At the city, a group of us were going up to The Cross for drinks. We had to take 2 cabs to get up the street. Myself and 2 other friends get into the second cab and tell the driver where about on oxford street we want to go and which club. We follow with "If you want you can just follow that cab". So we're driving up the road and he sparks up a convo, "what do you do, how's uni.." blah blah (aussie looking guy/40+). He then starts going argo over nothing, mumbling to himself, tone of voice getting louder..we couldn't understand what he was complaining about. We get to the lights at william + Oxford and he speeds up all of a sudden, runs a red light, then starts shouting out at us that he shouldn't run the red light, he'll probably get a ticket cos they'res cops around, and that he shouldn't have followed the cab. We didn't know what the fuck was going on.
We tell him to pull over, he complains again about the red light and starts shouting, so ofcourse we shout back that we told him in the first place where we wanted to go and it wasn't our fault he decided to run a red light, he should have known better. So he then goes all quiet and pleasant like. He thanked us when we gave him the fare and told us to enjoy our night (WTF???!!!!)
That cabbie was all over the place.. mood swings worse than a woman going through menopause.
This other time i was driving to the shopping centre with my brother and we pull up to a busy set of lights. Right next to us a cab pulls over and these 3 women start banging on the windows trying to get our attention. My brother looks over, and they ask us if they can get into my car and drive us to the station because they're cabbie is crazy. They begging please and showed us they're money. I took a look at the cabbie and his face got redder and redder as they were telling us this.
The lights go green. I take off. I don't know who was more crazy, the women or they're cabbie!