Originally Posted by Jack Manfred (Post 409898)

[RANT] Speaking of well-intentioned legislators, the California legislators who decided to give victims of domestic violence the "right" to refuse to testify are as bull-headed as you suspect. When abusers know that they can get their victims to "empower" themselves by opting out of the criminal justice system, justice is not served. [/RANT]

Originally Posted by Jack Manfred (Post 409900)

Good Lord. I'm glad you're safe.

Did you make a report? Get a Hack ID? Cab number? That cabbie needs to be in on a psych hold.

Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 409904)

I am afraid to call in now since (I am a bit tipsy and) the only way for them to find the right driver is by looking up my address, which is something I do not want my driver to remember. I know this makes me a terrible person, but right now, I am still afraid for my safety as he knows my address and access code.

Originally Posted by Jack Manfred (Post 409902)

I love the finish of the Redbreast whiskey. Time well spent.

Originally Posted by Jack Manfred (Post 409902)

I love the finish of the Redbreast whiskey. Time well spent.

Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 409904)

The cab number was blank on the back window and I was too afraid of being shot or hit by the cab to look too closely upon exiting.

He was so angry at the world and I just wanted to escape as quickly as possible.

I called the cab company but I could not get a live person before the workout. It took me a good 20 minutes to be able to tell my buddies the story -- I was obviously distraught -- and I shared it with my SO who immediately wanted me to come over (in a cab, the moron) and offered, unsurprisingly, sex as a palliative. (I passed.)

After the workout, which was awful because I was a wreck, I was too fucking traumatized, so I met my two best friends and embarked on an evening to make me forget how close death felt.

I am afraid to call in now since (I am a bit tipsy and) the only way for them to find the right driver is by looking up my address, which is something I do not want my driver to remember. I know this makes me a terrible person, but right now, I am still afraid for my safety as he knows my address and access code.

Originally Posted by ltl/fb (Post 409906)

Where do you get [Redbreast Whiskey]?

Originally Posted by Jack Manfred (Post 409909)

I got mine on sale at Bevmo. It's imported by Pernod Ricard. Any fine liquor store should carry it.

Originally Posted by 1436 (Post 409711)

The 4runner is the most "truck-like" in this conversation. The majority of the other vehicles under consideration are minivans or sedans that have been stretched into suv's. NTTAWWT. If you liked your camry but want something bigger, the highlander is the non-minivan answer to that problem. If you liked your Odyssey but want something non-minivan, the Pilot fits the bill.

I reluctantly got a 4runner a few years ago. I hated our 4runner at first and was glad that it was on lease and even happier that I didn't drive it daily. The ride is choppy and it just seems more like a truck than most full size trucks.

Now that the lease is up I am actually considering buying it as a third vehicle. I like having a truck that can tow well and has real 4 wheel drive. I admit that there have only been a few times where I needed more than an AWD system, but each of those times I was really happy that I had a locking differential.

All that being said, it is not a vehicle that I would suggest for most people. It grew on me because it saved my ass a few times. If you don't need that sort of grunt it will wear you out over time. The fact that I won't be buying another one says more than the fact that I may keep this one.

Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 409897)

So, tonight was a very bad night.

It began, innocently enough, with my deciding last minute to dash down to my work out. For me, that meant calling a cab, as I live about 7 minutes away and parking can be a bear.

I live downtown, so I take cabs all the time. Usually, the drivers are courteous. Tonight, I thought he was going to kill me. I wish I were exaggerating, but I felt close to death in the back of my cab.

He was imminently suicidal, and I thought, at best, he was going to drive off a bridge with me in the cab. I began a text to my best friends, letting them know what was happening. I did not send it. Instead, I made peace with the universe and contemplated exactly how he was going to kill himself, and by extension, me.

I had him drop me at the first available place, still blocks from my destination, and he refused my money because it just did not matter.

I made it to my workout, shaken by the near-death experience, and was completely freaked. Afterward, I began drinking with my friends. I am a lightweight so I am hammered from exactly 3 drinks -- a shot, a goose and soda, and a cocktail.

This is the kind of thing I am incapable of fully processing right now, but I have rarely been so terrified and I do not frighten easily.

Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 409897)

So, tonight was a very bad night.

It began, innocently enough, with my deciding last minute to dash down to my work out. For me, that meant calling a cab, as I live about 7 minutes away and parking can be a bear.

I live downtown, so I take cabs all the time. Usually, the drivers are courteous. Tonight, I thought he was going to kill me. I wish I were exaggerating, but I felt close to death in the back of my cab.

He was imminently suicidal, and I thought, at best, he was going to drive off a bridge with me in the cab. I began a text to my best friends, letting them know what was happening. I did not send it. Instead, I made peace with the universe and contemplated exactly how he was going to kill himself, and by extension, me.

I had him drop me at the first available place, still blocks from my destination, and he refused my money because it just did not matter.

I made it to my workout, shaken by the near-death experience, and was completely freaked. Afterward, I began drinking with my friends. I am a lightweight so I am hammered from exactly 3 drinks -- a shot, a goose and soda, and a cocktail.

This is the kind of thing I am incapable of fully processing right now, but I have rarely been so terrified and I do not frighten easily.

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore (Post 409907)

I hate the finish of any whisky. It's usually happens after the stores are all closed, and thus we have to switch to gin.

Originally Posted by John Phoenix (Post 409892)

U Street between 9th and 14th. While you're there, get a cupcake from Cake Love (15th and U).

Originally Posted by dtb (Post 409684)

The one car on everyone's list is the Acura (we were considering the Pilot, too). I'm scheduling test-drives for this weekend, and I guess I'll swap out the Audi for the Acura.
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Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen (Post 409916)

http://www.airlinepost.com/wp-conten...bus-a330-2.jpg

http://www.airlinepost.com/offbeat-n...llo-kitty.html

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 409917)

And you can keep on going to 16th or 17th past Cake Love. Take Metro to the U Street stop and do a loop. (although from Farragut/McPherson it's a switch of lines).

Good luck on the oral argument. Hope your partner nails it.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 409912)

what did he do? drove poorly, or did he say stuff? drove crazy, I'd move on and forget it.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 409882)

okay. you've got 2 hours in DC and need to get to some truly unique gift shoping: where to go? (for woman and children that have everything so unique is the key word, or offbeat)

Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 409904)

The cab number was blank on the back window and I was too afraid of being shot or hit by the cab to look too closely upon exiting.

He was so angry at the world and I just wanted to escape as quickly as possible.

I called the cab company but I could not get a live person before the workout. It took me a good 20 minutes to be able to tell my buddies the story -- I was obviously distraught -- and I shared it with my SO who immediately wanted me to come over (in a cab, the moron) and offered, unsurprisingly, sex as a palliative. (I passed.)

After the workout, which was awful because I was a wreck, I was too fucking traumatized, so I met my two best friends and embarked on an evening to make me forget how close death felt.

I am afraid to call in now since (I am a bit tipsy and) the only way for them to find the right driver is by looking up my address, which is something I do not want my driver to remember. I know this makes me a terrible person, but right now, I am still afraid for my safety as he knows my address and access code.

Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 409913)

FYI, that's every cab driver in NY, trained at the Taliban Driving School. Either the foot is floored on the accelerator or both feet are on the brake full stop, Rasul Allah.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 409922)

Smithsonian.

TM

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 409923)

The only people in the world I discriminate against are cabbies.

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 409925)

Which one?

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 409865)

I'm pro-prostitution.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 409927)

The one with all the installations.

TM

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 409926)

Tit for tat, huh?

Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 409921)

He kept saying over and over again, chillingly that this was "my last day . . . i have nothing to live for . . . i am going to kill myself."

He sounded serious and it sounded imminent.

I do not scare easily and, thanks to the dating habits of my friends, have spent time around crazy histrionics. This, however, was chilling and imminent. I was freaked enough that I was watching his hands in case he decided to shoot himself in the head -- or me -- while he was driving.

Erratic driving . . . he's a cabbie, that's to be expected. He was driving like a man who wanted to kill himself as he was driving, and who did not care that he would kill me, too.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 409930)

Deeper than that. They don't give a shit about anything except the next fare. They don't care about their cars, so they're willing to trade paint with anyone, short of a bus. They cut across multiple lanes for a fare, endangering scores of people behind them. They do not know how to drive. They mow down pedestrians constantly. If they do pick up black people, they refuse to take them to the places where they actually live. They run a business in which they need correct change, but won't pull over to make change until they run out of luck asking people to please give them exact change. They fucking smell. They don't speak English (even the ones who do speak English). If they pick you up from the airport or in front of a hotel, they try to cheat you. They hold up traffic or slow you down when you're inside when they see one of the 10,000 other cabbies they know and they want to discuss something. Lots of them don't know the city at all. They're overwhelmingly stupid. They listen to awful fucking music, christian sermon stations or retarded idiots on talk radio. And they're always on the fucking phone.

TM

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 409930)

Deeper than that. They don't give a shit about anything except the next fare. They don't care about their cars, so they're willing to trade paint with anyone, short of a bus. They cut across multiple lanes for a fare, endangering scores of people behind them. They do not know how to drive. They mow down pedestrians constantly. If they do pick up black people, they refuse to take them to the places where they actually live. They run a business in which they need correct change, but won't pull over to make change until they run out of luck asking people to please give them exact change. They fucking smell. They don't speak English (even the ones who do speak English). If they pick you up from the airport or in front of a hotel, they try to cheat you. They hold up traffic or slow you down when you're inside when they see one of the 10,000 other cabbies they know and they want to discuss something. Lots of them don't know the city at all. They're overwhelmingly stupid. They listen to awful fucking music, christian sermon stations or retarded idiots on talk radio. And they're always on the fucking phone.

TM

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 409933)

Can't quarrel with that rant, although I do think they know how to drive (so it's like English). But so do NASCAR drivers, and their safety record is only slightly better.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 409750)

I am mixed. But there is absolutely no one in this country who would call me white. Wherever I go, my entire life, I have been considered black (or sometimes Puerto Rican in my former Puerto Rican neighborhood)--even when I am/was with my white mother. You can only live in reality, Sebby.

Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 409931)

Wow. Glad you made it out alive.

I think you should notify the cab company this morning if you haven't already. If you are worried about retaliation from the driver, ask them not to tell the driver who made the report. I'm not sure what you mean by access codes but change them even if you don't report him.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 409934)

Maybe in Washington they do. But I've been in 3 cabs (I only take them when I'm wasted or when I'm at work late) over the past 2 weeks where the driver uses two feet in an automatic. That is not driving.

TM

Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 409937)

Amusement: when I got home, I called the SO again, who gave me a hard time about being out drinking. I had to remind him -- drinking, not drinking and driving.

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 409938)

Have you seen the cabs in DC? At least in NYC they're relatively new. We get the used NYC cabs. I once got into one here, and Joe Torre reminded me to buckle up. Actually, it may have been Billy Martin.

Originally Posted by Jack Manfred (Post 409902)

I love the finish of the Redbreast whiskey. Time well spent.

Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 409937)

I called the cab company again to try to report it and got voicemail. I am worried about retaliation, of course, as this is a man who made it clear he had nothing for which to live and no regard for my life or anyone else's.