A question about Americans

[cosmicpanda]

Do you always hail cabs by running into their path and waving your hands wildly, like in the movies?

 

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

we raise two fingers of one hand halfheartedly in the air, avoid looking directly at the cab, and walk to it as if it stopped there by magic.

 

movies are dumb.

[Moon Sedai]

I don't have a clue.

When I need a cab, I pick up a phone and call one.

But that doesn't come up often.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

I think he means in places where they roam wild.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

canadaiguans are ignorant of our customs so it's difficult to say..

[Arez Al'Loke]

Basing this on my knowledge of America from movies..

 

Men never need a cab apparantly.

 

Women always flash their private things for a truck driver at midnight.

 

how many % truth is that?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

that is true only of prostitutes who do not value their lives at all.

[Arez Al'Loke]

"The more you know"

[cosmicpanda]

Wow, my disciple, what movies dost thou watch?

[Arez Al'Loke]

I only watch the most nourishing movies that help me enlighten my feeble mind with the unspoken truth..

[Nynaeve]

Keep it unspoken :-P

 

 

 

Nyn

[Roxinos]

Keep it unspoken :-P

 

Hear, hear!

[Christine]

Yeah, if I need a cab, I call one.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

if i need a cab.... i got drunk in the wrong place...

[Leelou]

Last time I got a cab in Boston, I just stood at the corner of the sidewalk by the cab sign. If I'm not in the city, I'll call for one if needed. Generally, I drive or take the T (subway/transit in MA).

[RandA lThor]

Lol, this made me laugh so hard, especially this for some reason.

Wow, my disciple, what movies dost thou watch?

 

Yeah, I have taken a cab maybe twice in my life?

[Niel an' Tyomn]

No, I live in TEXAS

[John E. Kelley]

Cab? What's a cab?

[Arez Al'Loke]

It's one of those slim, cheap things you can see around "bad" neighboorhoods ...

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

it's a fine yellow chariot, only seen in new york... i quite miss cabs. nearly as cheap as the bus and noone icky except the driver and your chosen companions to annoy or fondle you.

[randomh3r0]

In most of America, you have to call a cab by phone to arrange a pickup. In everything except the biggest cities, cabs just driving by usually have someone in them, or are on their way to another pickup.

I suppose it'd probably work though... :)

[Leelou]

I think I've only used a cab a handful of times actually.

 

Definitely in NYC, a couple months ago in Boston and a few times to airports.

[LedZepMan]

Don't even have yellow cabs in Wyoming.

 

We have a family that has a van that will pick you up for an exorbitant amount of money for a ride that would only take ten minutes to stumble

[Starrik]

Huh. In Down Under we call 'em taxis and they're really expensive.

[Barmacral]

Cabs are always expensive, when at home or out of the way anywhere it is required to call one, but when downtown in whatever city a person can generally flag one down by waving at them when they drive by.