Has it happened to you that it`s late at night, you don`t have a car, and don`t want to take public transportation. What to do? In the case of my group, we decided to take a taxi, since we all lived in Brooklyn at that time, we saw a yellow cab and waved it to stop.
Of course, being that we were the only people this driver saw, he immediately stopped. But before letting us get in the cab, he asked us where we were going. Now, let me explain, in New York it is against the law for a taxi driver to ask you where you are going, but this late at night they get picky -- and there`s really nothing you can do about it. So, not being dumb, we just got into the taxi first, and then told him where we were going. This made him very angry. He shouted that we tricked him, but then we reminded him about the law that said he had to take us where we wanted to go, even if it was outside of Manhattan.
He told us that he would rather not make a dime of money rather than go to Brooklyn. We had a ten minutes fight with him, finally he said OK, OK I`ll take you there, but only on one condition, that we first go to the house of the guy that is supposed to take over the next shift, and then he can take you to where you want to go.
It was an unusual arrangement and we did not know whether to trust him, but he said look here`s my license number, if I am lying, report me to the Taxi Commission. We finally agreed, and he proceeded to take us to this weird place in Brooklyn, where -- sure enough -- another guy took over the taxi and took us to our destination.
After the fact we got quite thoughtful, thinking that we were crazy in what we did, that this guy could have turned out to be a maniac that could have harmed us, but I guess that luck was with us that night, but we agreed to never do something like that, ever again!
