Monday, October 24, 2005
On America - Part II
Today's "On America" post will discuss two of my current pet peeves..
i) I'm no world traveller, but where I come from taxis operate on one simple principle. The light on top of the taxi is on when the taxi is available, the light on top is off when there's someone in the taxi and it's unavailable. This makes it easy to know which cabs you should be waving at, and which ones you can ignore.....except in Boston. In Boston the light on top means nothing...it's official, I actually asked a cabbie after spending 15 minutes being confused by taxis with lights on whizzing by, and noticing that cabs cruising by with no lights on were in fact empty!!
ii) There are a few indisputable truths in life. You grow old. You pay taxes. You die. Payphones cost 25 cents. Each of these is a constant, a fact.
Except it seems that here in the glorious US of A, many payphones cost 50 cents. AMERICAN.
25 cents seems like a fair cost....but 50 cents just seems like a rip off. Especially if you get an answering machine!
i) I'm no world traveller, but where I come from taxis operate on one simple principle. The light on top of the taxi is on when the taxi is available, the light on top is off when there's someone in the taxi and it's unavailable. This makes it easy to know which cabs you should be waving at, and which ones you can ignore.....except in Boston. In Boston the light on top means nothing...it's official, I actually asked a cabbie after spending 15 minutes being confused by taxis with lights on whizzing by, and noticing that cabs cruising by with no lights on were in fact empty!!
ii) There are a few indisputable truths in life. You grow old. You pay taxes. You die. Payphones cost 25 cents. Each of these is a constant, a fact.
Except it seems that here in the glorious US of A, many payphones cost 50 cents. AMERICAN.
25 cents seems like a fair cost....but 50 cents just seems like a rip off. Especially if you get an answering machine!
# posted by Greg @ 4:56 PM 
