"The fuck is that dinging?" I asked.

"Because I'm not wearing a seatbelt."

WAIT. You're a taxi driver AND YOU'RE NOT WEARING YOUR SEATBELT?!!!

After berating him to put it on, he finally does. As soon as I'm home, I report him to his company with his name and cab#. His superiors are less than concerned. They said, "It's up to the driver if he wants to wear one."

Sooooo, no concern for your passengers aka customers? The operator cunt actually gathered enough braincells to put down the nail file and baby pictures and asked how that would the driver wearing a seat belt make a difference in my safety. UN.FU*KING.REAL.

BECAUSE IT'S A TAD HARD TO CONTROL THE CAR WHILE YOU'RE FLYING OUT OF IT FROM NOT WEARING YOUR SEATBELT!!!!!

Then it's not up to the driver. It's up to an attorney if I'm in a wheelchair for life. ASSHOLES.
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Panzer logged in on Gia's account ?

If the only thing preventing the driver from flying out of his seat is his seat belt, then I'd say the car is already out of control.

I would be more pissed about the dinging than the driver's disregard for his own safety.

And yes, the original post is very Panzer-esque.

Gia????
Did you lose your drivers license?

i have called the company repeatedly about these idiots yapping on the horn . Asking them to end their conversation winds up with a bunch of Arabic muttering. Other highlights: smoking in the cab (if you'd FUCKING ASK, i might let you), showing up with somebody already in the cab (my cousin, habibi), stopping to get food , and watching Ong Bak while driving. FUCK CAB DRIVERS.

god damm old age really fucks you up.

From the perspective of the cab driver,driving a cab without a seatbelt is inconsequential to the very danger of picking up a new fare.

A few years back in Philly there was a big controversy because cab drivers wouldn't stop to pick up blacks who tried to hail a cab downtown in the business and convention center areas. It was a riot. One of the news stations did a "special report" on it. They had a black guy in business casual try to get a cab and a white guy dressed in jeans and a t-shirt both trying to hail down a cabs. The white guy got a cab to stop every time within a few minutes. The black guy almost never got a cab to stop and the times he did it took him 30 minutes or more of trying. The news caster interviewed a couple cab drivers that they blurred and altered their voice and each of them said that every time a cabby gets robbed at gunpoint its a black guy with a gun AND the blacks that don't rob them also don't tip.

Haha I have friends who are cabbies who emigrated from Eritrea. They avoid picking up black curbfares whenever they can. Somalians they say are the worst.

Gia drives just fine. She is fibbing...

^^^Evan hates my driving.