May
2006
Not your average theft motivation
Today’s taxi driver was driving a large Mercedes. I kid you not, I went to work in a white 600 SEL.
As soon as he started the engine, he bursted:
“You know, miss, the clients I took before you were three women. They were going to work to [Huge shoe factory name]. We passed the mayory’s workers who were changing the flower pots (*my town has lots of potted flowers on the public domain, placed in custom - made postaments*) and one of the women shouts:
I tried to take one of those pots last night! But the bastards screwed them in the postaments! I’m so mad at those idiots!Why are they screwing them in?
I thought of not telling her anything but she just went on an on. Finally I turned to the backseat and told her:
Lady, if you’d put some expensive flowerpots in your yard and there’s no fence, wouldn’t you screw them in too? To which she says that it’s not the same. I ask her why she did it anyway, since she doesn’t look poor. And then she tells me:
Well, don’t you know that stolen goods last longer?
After that, I was so angry I stopped the car and left her in the middle of the street, without wanting money or anything”
I left him a big tip .
Awesome! A taxi driver with principles. We need a whole lot more just like him to put a little peer pressure on the savages.
What does the stat-o-meter say now?
That’s the spirit! I met some honest taxi drivers in my small hometown — they are usually retired from their life-long jobs, drive the taxi because they need to feel useful, and keep you entertained with stories about their grandsons or how corrupt politicians are nowadays…
Romerican - the stats are gone. Well done.
Raluca - you should have seen the guy’s moustache. A sparrow could have nested in it
Way to go, mr.Taxidriver!