On Aug 27, 2006, at 12:12 AM, David Mann wrote: > My brother-in-law spent some time as a cycle courier in London and > he's told me a couple of interesting stories. While I'd love to get > paid to ride a bike all day, I don't fancy doing so in the middle of > any city.
Last time I was in London I took a cab to a central destination. The cabbie pulled over to the curb, I paid him, and when I opened the door to get out a bike courier slammed right into it and went head over heels through the air over the door. Good thing my arm was out of the way! He got up, dusted himself off, and then proceeded to curse a blue streak at me, as if his idiocy was somehow my fault. I just went on my way and left him and the cabbie arguing over who was going to pay to fix the bike. Once in New Orleans I was about to get out of a cab under one of those hotel verandas with multiple cab lanes. I opened the door and was about to step out when an impatient driver tried to zip around the cab way too fast and completely took the door off. Getting out of cabs appears to be a dangerous thing for me. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
