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

 

Inquiring minds want to know.

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.

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.

I think he means in places where they roam wild.

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

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?

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

"The more you know"

Wow, my disciple, what movies dost thou watch?

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

Keep it unspoken :-P

 

 

 

Nyn

Keep it unspoken :-P

 

Hear, hear!

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

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

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).

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?

No, I live in TEXAS

Cab? What's a cab?

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

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.

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... :)

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.

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

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

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.