Well, if you don't believe them, then how are we supposed to? Believe in yourself, so that we can! Or something.
Thanks, Lee!
Cabs in DC were always a weird mystery to me. I tried reading the zone maps sometimes, but it didn't help.
Bester: Mal. Whaddya need two mechanics for? Mal: I really don't.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Oct 07, 2007 8:37:29 am PDT #5431 of 10001
Lee - Oct 07, 2007 8:37:34 am PDT #5432 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I live near a street where a steady stream of cabs go past on their way back to Manhattan, and I hail them all the time.
I've done this too!
bon bon - Oct 07, 2007 8:39:56 am PDT #5433 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I will never trust Jesse again.
Maybe it was the car services that can't be hailed?
Tom Scola - Oct 07, 2007 8:44:00 am PDT #5434 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Hil R. - Oct 07, 2007 8:44:23 am PDT #5435 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Coming from DC, I'm all "Dude, you've got meters, be thankful!" The crazy "zone" system means that even if you've lived there forever, half the time you don't know what the ride will cost--or what the cabbie will try to SAY it costs....
I've pretty much learned the borders of the zones for the places it matters for me -- the only one that I really need to care about is the Florida Ave. border in Adams Morgan. But I live right near a zone border, so I can go about twenty blocks east on the one zone fare, but more than about three blocks west gets me the two zone fare.
Maybe it was the car services that can't be hailed?
Yep.
Jesse - Oct 07, 2007 8:46:55 am PDT #5436 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, some of the things she says are true: [link]
Heh. I'm still traumatized by Wilma Mankiller.
bon bon - Oct 07, 2007 8:49:51 am PDT #5437 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I woulda said Navajo too!
megan walker - Oct 07, 2007 8:51:21 am PDT #5438 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
But I live right near a zone border, so I can go about twenty blocks east on the one zone fare, but more than about three blocks west gets me the two zone fare.
The craziest border used to be in front of Georgetown. If you got out on the street, it was one zone, if you had the cab pull into the circle driveway at the main gate, it was two. Of course, now you can't drive through the main gate, so that solves that.
DavidS - Oct 07, 2007 8:54:36 am PDT #5439 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh -- one of my favorite SF bar memories is the weekend of that crazy debauched Halloween F2F, when we went to Blondie's on Valencia and you kept ordering different martinis based on what the olives in them were stuffed with.
They had a lot of variety! I was very disappointed that they were out of the sausage stuffed olives. Drinking - that's a good way to spend an afternoon.
And for no particular reason...
SNL parody of Twin Peaks. Phil Hartman's Leland Palmer is genius!
Hil R. - Oct 07, 2007 8:56:34 am PDT #5440 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
What drives me nuts is that the Trader Joe's is just on the other side of a zone border. It's about seven blocks away, but if I've bought more than I can carry and didn't bring my cart with me, then I've got to hail a cab. Those seven blocks are about $10.