Getting 'Into It' with a taxi driver.

[richard_smith237]

6 minutes ago, BarBoy said:

Seems like you lot have never heard of a go pro before? 

 

That's what I was out with yesterday, I was doing some filming and didn't want to carry both of them with me.

 

You went out with your Go-Pro and 'just didn't want to carry your 220 gram phone....  

 

You'll of course have the 'Go-Pro' photo to show us then won't you....      

 

... Oh... it was accidentally deleted you say ???   

 

6 minutes ago, BarBoy said:

Not like I have to justify myself to you lot anyway but that's the way it went down.

 

Well, actually you do - because of recent your posting history you have zero credibility - this is an opportunity for you to prove you are not a troll... 

 

...  someone who isn't making this story up would post the photo and remove further speculation, or forever be considered what everyone suspects anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

[ChumpChange]

6 minutes ago, BarBoy said:

That's what I was out with yesterday, I was doing some filming and didn't want to carry both of them with me.

Filming ladyboys in Soi 6/1 again. Keep up the great videos bob. 

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, marin said:

You are a living walking cliche Colin. I find you remarkably similar to a former poster named bob. But he was younger. Be careful out in fantasy land Colin.  Old guys like you can be taken advantage of very easily.

 

I guess you are aware that a large % of Thai taxi drivers / song taow drivers / mcy taxi riders, carry pipes, items similar to baseball bats, big knives including machetes and guns. Same as in many countries. 

 

 

[nikmar]

 

 

I still love you Bob - I enjoy your little games - makes life more interesting 🙂

 

 

 

[KannikaP]

1 hour ago, transam said:

I think the fair was about 75

I think the FARE was FAIR.

[chippendale]

1 hour ago, FritsSikkink said:

I am fitter than you and more mental stable.

 

Aren't you also more heroic and tougher than everyone here?

[transam]

32 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

I think the FARE was FAIR.

I think it was the anti-taxi driver bloke who said that, not me.........😋

[jvs]

4 hours ago, BarBoy said:

well it shocked him and he blew his top.

 

He was already hot under the collar so maybe a farang asking him what's wrong just tipped him over the edge!

Yes Bob i remember from your other stories,you seem to have this effect on Thai people in general.

Don't worry,it is not them,it is you!

[KannikaP]

20 minutes ago, transam said:

I think it was the anti-taxi driver bloke who said that, not me.........😋

Yes Sir, it was Yagoda. Sorry.

 

Wonder if this Fare is OK for his Ride. https://youtu.be/mU7SubfQpO8

[connda]

History may not repeat, but it oft times rhymes.

https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/08/world/asia/thailand-american-killed/index.html

[khunJam]

10 hours ago, BarBoy said:

Yesterday I had a very heated encounter with a taxi driver that was bordering on dangerous.  I was forced to hail one from the side of the road due to not having my phone with me (I own that part) and asked him to take me to my destination, which he agreed to, with the meter on.

 

All was going swimmingly until the traffic started to become congested. I could see the middle aged geezer getting more and more frustrated as time was passing by. Then he started swearing profusely in Thai (obviously he didn't know I could speak it) so he was undeniably shocked when I asked him in perfect thai what was the matter?

 

Well that's when he blew his top. Farang this, eff this, you dont understand this, my life is so hard, you too rich, why not you go back your country, how dare you speak to me in Thai, this traffic is horrible, etc etc etc. All of which I took on the chin and gave him some back in return, but then he started shouting and banging the steering wheel like a complete lunatic. So I said that's enough, pull over, I will get out here, to which he did. I paid what I owed and he went screeching off down a side street. I took a photo of his licence plate, his name badge etc and will be phoning him in today, not that it will make any difference...

 

Grab & Bolt always for me now, it was partly my fault for forgetting the phone but those taxis that crawl curbs looking for customers can sometimes be loose cannons.

 

Stay safe out there, folks! 

Totally B.effing S. 

[khunJam]

10 hours ago, BarBoy said:

name is not bob.

B.S. again Bob 

[still kicking]

8 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Oh this is coming from the man who is nearly 80 and couldn't even get upstairs , why don't you go to a gym instead of sitting there with a turtle neck hanging down 

What a stupid response from you again as the poster says keep mopping floors, you also annoyed me many times with your lies and B/S. BTW floor moppers don't live till they are eighty you are a nasty piece of s**t. 

[animalmagic]

15 hours ago, BarBoy said:

Seems like you lot have never heard of a go pro before? 

 

That's what I was out with yesterday, I was doing some filming and didn't want to carry both of them with me.

 

Not like I have to justify myself to you lot anyway but that's the way it went down.

Upload the video of the altercation then!

[Luuk Chaai]

16 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

How did you take the picture without your phone?

maybe he had his origional with him ..  just in case

[Thingamabob]

18 hours ago, BarBoy said:

and I have said many times on this forum since I joined my name is not bob.

 

I'm not even going to say what it is again as I'm tired of repeating myself.

Oh dear ! Poor you...

[Olmate]

17 hours ago, MarkT63 said:

And you took a picture of his license plate on the phone you did not have with you?? 🤔

Magic carpet phone camera inhaler vibrator etc etc. BB, GG,s  in trusted must have boy bag.

[jippytum]

How did you take a photo of his badge and licence plate when you did not have your phone??? 

[BarBoy]

2 minutes ago, jippytum said:

How did you take a photo of his badge and licence plate when you did not have your phone??? 

This has already been cleared up.

 

Read the thread why don't you!

[wavodavo]

20 hours ago, BarBoy said:

Yesterday I had a very heated encounter with a taxi driver that was bordering on dangerous.  I was forced to hail one from the side of the road due to not having my phone with me (I own that part) and asked him to take me to my destination, which he agreed to, with the meter on.

 

All was going swimmingly until the traffic started to become congested. I could see the middle aged geezer getting more and more frustrated as time was passing by. Then he started swearing profusely in Thai (obviously he didn't know I could speak it) so he was undeniably shocked when I asked him in perfect thai what was the matter?

 

Well that's when he blew his top. Farang this, eff this, you dont understand this, my life is so hard, you too rich, why not you go back your country, how dare you speak to me in Thai, this traffic is horrible, etc etc etc. All of which I took on the chin and gave him some back in return, but then he started shouting and banging the steering wheel like a complete lunatic. So I said that's enough, pull over, I will get out here, to which he did. I paid what I owed and he went screeching off down a side street. I took a photo of his licence plate, his name badge etc and will be phoning him in today, not that it will make any difference...

 

Grab & Bolt always for me now, it was partly my fault for forgetting the phone but those taxis that crawl curbs looking for customers can sometimes be loose cannons.

 

Stay safe out there, folks! 

well done Bob, you really put him back in his place !!

[wavodavo]

19 hours ago, BarBoy said:

and I have said many times on this forum since I joined my name is not bob.

 

I'm not even going to say what it is again as I'm tired of repeating myself.

Hey Bobby you should have wacked the driver around  the earhole with your PHONE...oh... sorry   I forgot you left your phone home !!

[RayWright]

To misquote Tom Cruise, "Show me the photo".

[Walker88]

Let me fill in the missing parts of Bob's story....

 

He forgot his phone but had his camera. Since Bob is a Rolex guy, I assume his camera is a Leica M6 rangefinder, and he probably had the 35mm Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 attached. The camera is film, however, not digital, and in his haste he grabbed a roll of Kodachrome 25 from the freezer. Sadly, the last two labs that developed K25---Yodobashi Camera in Tokyo and a neighborhood lab in New Jersey, stopped doing K25 about 15 years ago, so Bob was stuck on the sidewalk, conclusive evidence in hand, but nowhere to develop the film and subsequently post the image here.

 

Just the luck of that nasty taxi driver that Bob is a bit of a Luddite and still uses film. Otherwise, he would have used his connections and gotten Big Joke all over this affront to geometry and theology.

[steven100]

19 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

How did you take the picture without your phone?

you just commented after another poster already questioned that ....   

 

I thought you were quicker than that Fritz .... Lol

[TheFishman1]

I had to grab taxi once picked me up from the hospital to take me home and we got stuck in a little traffic and this guy was blowing his Top when we finally got free of the traffic he started driving like a maniac TIT

[simon43]

Getting 'into it' sounds like some sort of sexual encounter with that taxi driver.  Bob, were you making passes at straight guys again?

[BarBoy]

28 minutes ago, TheFishman1 said:

I had to grab taxi once picked me up from the hospital to take me home and we got stuck in a little traffic and this guy was blowing his Top when we finally got free of the traffic he started driving like a maniac TIT

Over the years it has happened to me many times.

 

Thai men, especially taxi drivers hopped up on Yaba, can get very excitable behind the wheel, especially if they haven't slept for a few days...

[NanLaew]

18 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

I guess you are aware that a large % of Thai taxi drivers / song taow drivers / mcy taxi riders, carry pipes, items similar to baseball bats, big knives including machetes and guns. Same as in many countries. 

 

 

 

I guess you're also aware that a larger percentage of Thai taxi drivers never encounter a mythical, Thai-speaking farang with a Go Pro either.

[Yagoda]

One time a taxi driver pulled the "no change" move and so he got an extra 10 baht from me.

 

At that time, the baht was 42 to the dollar. So,

 

Its the principle, so I screamed at him in an insane fury, veins bulging, spittle flecking my beard along side the chunks of Pla Ra from my lunch. As is typical of Thai taxi drivers, he groveled before me, so I allowed him to keep his ill gotten gains.

 

Theives and cowards! Treat them accordingly!

[soalbundy]

23 hours ago, BarBoy said:

Yesterday I had a very heated encounter with a taxi driver that was bordering on dangerous.  I was forced to hail one from the side of the road due to not having my phone with me (I own that part) and asked him to take me to my destination, which he agreed to, with the meter on.

 

All was going swimmingly until the traffic started to become congested. I could see the middle aged geezer getting more and more frustrated as time was passing by. Then he started swearing profusely in Thai (obviously he didn't know I could speak it) so he was undeniably shocked when I asked him in perfect thai what was the matter?

 

Well that's when he blew his top. Farang this, eff this, you dont understand this, my life is so hard, you too rich, why not you go back your country, how dare you speak to me in Thai, this traffic is horrible, etc etc etc. All of which I took on the chin and gave him some back in return, but then he started shouting and banging the steering wheel like a complete lunatic. So I said that's enough, pull over, I will get out here, to which he did. I paid what I owed and he went screeching off down a side street. I took a photo of his licence plate, his name badge etc and will be phoning him in today, not that it will make any difference...

 

Grab & Bolt always for me now, it was partly my fault for forgetting the phone but those taxis that crawl curbs looking for customers can sometimes be loose cannons.

 

Stay safe out there, folks! 

I've only ever taken curb crawlers (I have no idea how to order a 'grab' taxi anyway) I've only had good experiences with taxis in Bangkok, one taxi driver came from a place near my village in Isaan and was most helpful in helping me find a building that was hard to identify and even refused a tip for the extra trouble I put him through.