So todays celebrity taxi driver was Mad Cat Lady from the Simpsons.
The normal trip to the IBM office in Munich seemed to be taking a turn for the worst when she decided she probably actually should be wearing her glasses, she only really decided on this course of action when she was waiting at the crossroads parked over the tram lines.
Glasses on, it seems that the trip couldn’t get that much more interesting, however, pulling a sharp left into a side street, and seemingly seriously weighing up the pro’s and con’s of driving on the wrong side of the road to get round the traffic in front, she calmly announced that the car in front of the lorry was scared and she was was going to pull along side it and tell it so..
Having pulled alongside the car and I’m assuming having told it it was scared, from the animated hand waving and mumbling to the other car’s passenger side door she drove on. The next part of our trip seemed to unearth a wealth of gems that drivers in Munich may not be aware of..
Firstly, those pesky traffic lights, always turning to red as you approach them.. now according to mad cat lady taxi driver, there is a secret piece of wire under the road, and getting them to change involves rocking your car back and forth over the top of the wire in the road. Admittedly we looked a little like some reject from ‘Pimp my Ride’ and ‘Gangster Rappers do Munich‘ when we were treated to a demo of it on our trip,
Secondly for those travelers, like us, going to the IBM Munich office, its worth noting that the NEC is within walking distance of the IBM office, and she seemed to get quite upset that even though we wanted to go to IBM, we didn’t seem to appreciate her offer of dropping us off at the Trade Fair at the NEC instead, I think it may have lost something in translation, but like she said ‘If you go IBM, you could go to the Trade Fair, its just the same’, although I think just the fact I think she
was referring to our office as ebay.m, I wasn’t holding much on her corporate analysis of our company.
Having almost completely missed the point of being a taxi driver and upholding the prime directive - ‘take your customer where they ask you to take them, not where you fancy driving today’, she announced that she’d been a taxi driver since 1993, and knew Munich like no other taxi driver.. I did wonder if the jar of mayonnaise in the back of the car had been there just as long, but decided not to ask that..
Mad Cat Lady Taxi Driver also was quite proud of the fact that she new every corner of Munich at any time of day. Another handy hint for travelers from the Mad Cat Lady seems to be that she was implying that street corners in Munich, may change during the day..
So beware of changing street corners, secret traffic light wires, and cars with personality disorders and Mad Cat Lady Taxi Drivers..
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