BTC/TAK on ACK wrote:

...The way I used to get a cab to Brooklyn as a teenager was to get IN the

cab before I told the driver where I wanted to go. This always worked.

One can only assume, Eileen, that you're a world-class beauty!

She won't answer, but in those days, there was none to compare with.

Howie

Mila

"Eileen Garland" wrote in message
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BTC/TAK on ACK wrote:


Cab drivers certainly can be a bit "crazy-making", can't they? I don't

know

much [oh, let's be honest here, I know nothing] about Lisbon's taxi

laws.

They [drivers] undoubtedly pay no attention to them anyhow... kind of

like

NYC cabbies. Trying to get a Manhattan cabbie to take you into Brooklyn

can

be maddening. (I do, by the way [and it's way too complicated a story to

get

into here] have reason to know that certain "contracts" [presumably,

even

verbal ones] there are only considered binding if in Portuguese.}

Tee hee. The way I used to get a cab to Brooklyn as a teenager was to
get IN the cab before I told the driver where I wanted to go. This
always worked.

Eileen