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[LukeSkywalker]

At major US airports, cabbies form long lines, waiting long time for their turns. So they don't want to do short drives. The guys can be very nasty with people going cheap rides, only a few miles.

I got dumped a few times at dark spots, or got harassed for big tips on these short rides. So I would tell the rogue cabbies, that I would take their cab number down and complain to the cab company tomorrow. They would immediately lose their job, not to mention getting sued for putting me at grave risks of getting assaulted, possibly murdered, and robbed of my expensive luggage and big amounts of cash. They could also be criminal suspects in arranging the robberies.

The rogue cabbies were all shaking and sweating. The prospects of losing their jobs and had their wives / GFs holding out on sex must have been terrifying. They were immediately very respectful and cooperative afterwards. Hungry people can turn into beasts. I just pity them.

Wonder if you could pull that kind of leverage in Manilla? I hate to get into fights with these street urchins over small money. They would probably fight far more often, perhaps with concealed weapons, and could really injure the passengers. A cabbie in Bangkok drove a long machete through his ride's back after an argument.

I would rather spend time in Manila screwing sexy babes, not screwing around at the precinct, reporting to the police.

I just had an interesting scenario with a taxi driver. I only take meter taxi's and it's not the money so much as the principal, as I always give the honest ones a healthy tip. I caught a taxi out side of the tune hotel in malate who agreed on using the meter. Well about 10 meters down the road in the sleaziest part of mabini street he pulled over and insisted on charging me 300p or he would leave me and my bags on the side of the road. At first fantasies of turning his body into a punching bag and his face into a spittoon were happily parading thru my head, until a thought entered my mind. Now he has the upper hand, when we get to makati and my bags are safely inside the tune hotel, then I would have the upper hand. So with a forced smile I agreed on 300p for the ride.

Upon arrival, I hopped out and retrieved my bags and sent them safely inside with the hotel employee. On completion of the first part of my ploy, I turned with fire in my eyes and said " how much do you want for the ride " with out even so much as a tiny smile on my face? He stepped back and started to shake and said " 300p ". MY answer was a precise and crisp "fuck you, you said you were going to use the meter at first, and then pulled over and threatened to dump me on the side of the road, I should be beating the fuck out of you". Was I pissed? LAT

[LuvAsianTang]

I understand your logic and your anger, but your actions may bite you on the bum.

If he is seriously feeling angry about what you did and said, he may decide to seek revenge by getting a few of his cronies to join him and wait for you near Tune since he knows where you are staying.

He never lost face in the eyes of anyone else except himself so he might also just shrug and say WTF; I tried but I didn't get away with it so I will forget it.

I would be watching over my shoulder for the rest of my visit if I were you just the same (or move to another hotel).

Thanks for the advice red but I'm neither a runner or worried about a little fight. I was raised in the streets of LA and know my way around a street fight. Besides I did pay him a fair amount and he knows it, he just didn't get the bonus.

If we let these taxi thugs just do as they please then there will be no end to it, and I for one am not willing to let that happen.

LAT

[Red Kilt]

Now some may say that I was a bit hard on him, and should have paid the 300p and some would say I was a bit to easy, . < SNIP > A positive ending to a situation that could have ended very badly for us both had I acted on my fantasy instead of my logic.

I understand your logic and your anger, but your actions may bite you on the bum.

If he is seriously feeling angry about what you did and said, he may decide to seek revenge by getting a few of his cronies to join him and wait for you near Tune since he knows where you are staying.

He never lost face in the eyes of anyone else except himself so he might also just shrug and say WTF; I tried but I didn't get away with it so I will forget it.

I would be watching over my shoulder for the rest of my visit if I were you just the same (or move to another hotel).

[LuvAsianTang]

I just had an interesting scenario with a taxi driver. I only take meter taxi's and it's not the money so much as the principal, as I always give the honest ones a healthy tip. I caught a taxi out side of the tune hotel in malate who agreed on using the meter. Well about 10 meters down the road in the sleaziest part of mabini street he pulled over and insisted on charging me 300p or he would leave me and my bags on the side of the road. At first fantasies of turning his body into a punching bag and his face into a spittoon were happily parading thru my head, until a thought entered my mind. Now he has the upper hand, when we get to makati and my bags are safely inside the tune hotel, then I would have the upper hand. So with a forced smile I agreed on 300p for the ride.

Upon arrival, I hopped out and retrieved my bags and sent them safely inside with the hotel employee. On completion of the first part of my ploy, I turned with fire in my eyes and said " how much do you want for the ride " with out even so much as a tiny smile on my face? He stepped back and started to shake and said " 300p ". MY answer was a precise and crisp "fuck you, you said you were going to use the meter at first, and then pulled over and threatened to dump me on the side of the road, I should be beating the fuck out of you". Was I pissed? Hell yes. He looked just a little different then when he was behind the wheel, jacking me for 300p, I should say just a little bit less confident, but he still had the nerve to ask 250, with a quivering lower lip I might say. I reached in my wallet as I stared threateningly into his beady eyes and pulled out 200p. I stepped forward and handed him the money with a foot note," mother fucker I should be kicking the fuck out of you instead of paying you, take this and get the fuck out of here you piece of shit". Was I pissed? Dangerously so.

After payment, we continued our conversation, filled with expletives and one fingered hand solutes, until he was well in his taxi and rapidly leaving the tune behind.

Now some may say that I was a bit hard on him, and should have paid the 300p and some would say I was a bit to easy, and that I shouldn't have paid him at all. Had I have agreed on the 300p prior to climbing in the taxi I would have paid him and been forever pissed at myself for being a chump. But in essence, he held me up in his cab after agreeing on using the meter which would have been less then 200 plus a tip. I'm not the type of person to try and get a free ride, I pay my way in life and always have. I gave him what I thought was a fair amount, said just enough to pucker his sphincter and sent him packing. This gave me much pleasure, and gave him what he should have gotten, A positive ending to a situation that could have ended very badly for us both had I acted on my fantasy instead of my logic.

happy pooning, and taxi rides, LAT

[FreebieFan]

Refering to my Adams family report you can see I was interrupted by quite a few questions (same every 10 minutes or so "what are you doing now"?). It is fully irritating but to my experience if you answer them without a "LOL" or "sweetie" you will get the "are you mad at me" question in return.

My last trip I admit I did a seemingly younger crowd than I normaly do and these youngsters seem to have the same questions trained from somewhere unkown to me.

Also got this "did you have lunch?" Question loads of time and at 6:30am in morning "hows your day"? I don't know any sane answer to this last one as I normaly don't answer and by far is ready to get out of bed (normaly I am assisted by a spinner next to me anyway and morning session is about to happen in a few hrs.

So anyone have any insights why pinays (the younger ones) do like this? Maby it is about confident as the tad older crowd just send "I am on my way I text you when outside" line. More comfortable so to speak.

We've all experienced this endlessly. The truth is, it actually doesn't matter what you reply as the routine will follow the same inane manner with the same mind numbingly dumb questions. They get it from each other.

They feel a need to use a phone constantly and that its better to fill the emptyness with nonsense than anything else. Watch 4 filipinas sitting together in a Starbucks. All four wil be working their phones and won't be looking talking to each other.

Reply however you feel, but I think many of us try for the self amusement factor.

For instance " have you had your breakfast "." Well I'm imagining you naked on my table right now and I have a knife and fork in hand.

The reply will be " Huh?"

" Hows your day" well " I'm imagining you lying next to me ready for 3rd round " Another " Huh?"

If she says " have you had lunch " and you reply " huh?" she will reply " are you mad?".

Another variant is when she says " have you had your lunch" to reply " have you had your lunch?". She will reply "huh?"

We don't understand their text language and they don't understand ours.

[Member #4387]

Refering to my Adams family report you can see I was interrupted by quite a few questions (same every 10 minutes or so "what are you doing now"?). It is fully irritating but to my experience if you answer them without a "LOL" or "sweetie" you will get the "are you mad at me" question in return.

My last trip I admit I did a seemingly younger crowd than I normaly do and these youngsters seem to have the same questions trained from somewhere unkown to me.

Also got this "did you have lunch?" Question loads of time and at 6:30am in morning "hows your day"? I don't know any sane answer to this last one as I normaly don't answer and by far is ready to get out of bed (normaly I am assisted by a spinner next to me anyway and morning session is about to happen in a few hrs.

So anyone have any insights why pinays (the younger ones) do like this? Maby it is about confident as the tad older crowd just send "I am on my way I text you when outside" line. More comfortable so to speak.

[FruitNinja]

I had the privilege of being walked through one such scam, an ex's sister's bf.

He even showed live videos of girls and the 'girl' goes. Let me show you my boob. And nothing else on web cam. I caught the scam almost when the admirer. Supposedly the girl, introduced herself saying the mutual friend requested to say hi.

It was pretty convincing. I never exposed myself, claiming my web cam was faulty. And played along, claimed I will send the money and the so called girl goes 'send to my cousin's name, as I don't have any I'd to collect. ' etc etc. And insisted I give my full address in Malaysia as part of WU verification, it wasn't hard for me to feign innocence and cook up a fake address.

I continued playing and swore I sent money and on and on. When the guy figured out I was bluffing he threatened to invoke the wrath of PNP. And said he is sending cops over to my hotel in Manila where we were supposed to rendezvous for fun. When in reality I was in Malaysia

If I didn't know Philippines, and that everyone name drops PNP or BI, I may have folded.

They can get pretty convincing and scary for the lesser initiated.

I played one guy for months. Said he was from African and had some blood diamonds. He was going to have a flight attendant bring them to NYC as long as I sent money first. For those less initiated: There are no random strangers that are going to reach out to you and make you rich. These guys prey on greed. When I travel I always assume that anyone walking up to me and offering me anything is a scam. Same way with the internet. No complete stranger is worried about me getting rich. He's more worried about himself getting rich on your dime. Ignore any stranger. Unless you want to pull their leg. The guy from Africa was pretty pissed that I wasted months of his time. But that's all he does anyway. Try and find suckers. There's one born.

[Robbaf]

a lot of manila taxi drivers have no qualms screwing innocent looking local passengers, from what i know.

a girl took a taxi from san juan to makati, on a saturday and after 2 hours, the driver dropped her near greenbelt saying he don't know how to get to makati ave. the girl showed the receipt for nearly 300 peso.

this is so true. a friend of mine (ac bar girl) went to samar last february and when she arrived at bus terminal in manila, she got a taxi to terminal 3 and the driver wanted 800p for her fare. she complained and the driver said you are working in the bar, being paid by foreigners and have money to fly to samar, so you can afford it. she paid it because she was scared.

when i lived in the pi, i had five or six trusted cabbie on speed dial. when i would go to the casino, with 20, 000p or casino pickup with atm run on way back to hotel or if i was going to make a few stops. a good cabbie is worth their weight in gold.

[Cybertron]

Hi all,

I will be visiting Manila soon. Can't wait to get started on the action.

CT

[Red Kilt]

If I didn't know Philippines, and that everyone name drops PNP or BI, I may have folded.

They can get pretty convincing and scary for the lesser initiated.

Which leads us back to my original post.

I said

"Be careful on line with Filipino links. They use all sorts of tricks these days".

[Econo Tech]

RK,

I read that this morning. Actually made the news in the west. I got to tell ya though, you got to be out of your mind to fall for something like that. Like the Nigerian 419 scams. Who falls for that? And the girls on PinaLove and DIA. If she sends you a yahoo or skype name in her opening email. You can be 99% sure it's a scam. I don't know what but I don't have time to find out. I also have little sympathy for people that fall for these scams as they usually prey on human greed. Nothings for nothing. As with anything in life,"caveat emptor."

I had the privilege of being walked through one such scam, an ex's sister's bf.

He even showed live videos of girls and the 'girl' goes. Let me show you my boob. And nothing else on web cam. I caught the scam almost when the admirer. Supposedly the girl, introduced herself saying the mutual friend requested to say hi.

It was pretty convincing. I never exposed myself, claiming my web cam was faulty. And played along, claimed I will send the money and the so called girl goes 'send to my cousin's name, as I don't have any I'd to collect. ' etc etc. And insisted I give my full address in Malaysia as part of WU verification, it wasn't hard for me to feign innocence and cook up a fake address.

I continued playing and swore I sent money and on and on. When the guy figured out I was bluffing he threatened to invoke the wrath of PNP. And said he is sending cops over to my hotel in Manila where we were supposed to rendezvous for fun. When in reality I was in Malaysia

If I didn't know Philippines, and that everyone name drops PNP or BI, I may have folded.

They can get pretty convincing and scary for the lesser initiated.

[Sam 14]

Plus Obama promised to save the Philippines from any attack. Mainly because PNoy said the country did not have many or any fighter planes!

So the oligarchs will tell you via the spin doctors aka Palace spokesmen / women that the economy is great (Tiger economy) and poverty is falling, plus of course corruption is being tackled and the USA will save it from China so life must be great LOL.

Oh, Good! Thanks for that clarification. When I heard Mr. Obama was coming, cynicism kicked in and I was thinking this probably isn't about the well being of the average Filipino. (Or the average American). I figured maybe it had something to do with that TPP deal. I'm glad that's not the case. Haha

[FruitNinja]

Be careful on line with Filipino links guys.

They use all sorts of tricks these days.

http://www.rappler.com/nation/57022-...ion-ring-in-ph

RK,

I read that this morning. Actually made the news in the west. I got to tell ya though, you got to be out of your mind to fall for something like that. Like the Nigerian 419 scams. Who falls for that? And the girls on PinaLove and DIA. If she sends you a yahoo or skype name in her opening email. You can be 99% sure it's a scam. I don't know what but I don't have time to find out. I also have little sympathy for people that fall for these scams as they usually prey on human greed. Nothings for nothing. As with anything in life,"caveat emptor."

[Member #4387]

A lot of Manila taxi drivers have no qualms screwing innocent looking local passengers, from what I know.

A girl took a taxi from San Juan to Makati, on a Saturday and after 2 hours, the driver dropped her near Greenbelt saying he don't know how to get to Makati Ave. The girl showed the receipt for nearly 300 peso.

On my last trip down in 3 world this was my first experience ladies coming relatively late. I use a lot of energy upfront to make them understand beeing on time is important. But this inafcto story shows a hole diff picture. I usualy give the girl som slacks as trappic is horrendous from time to time so not even the well most travelled locals could predict but from 3pm until 5:15pm and communication from around 2 pm (I will be there in 30 minutes). Well that bad can no one predict travelling. But I stayed put. What we not sacrifies for the golden pinaypussy.

[Econo Tech]

So the recognition of time and room is quite badly trained down in 3 world I guess? To her defense, she was poor girl, did not know how to travel very well, was quite not a world traveller, so I tipped her well after sessions feeling a tad sorry for her.

A lot of Manila taxi drivers have no qualms screwing innocent looking local passengers, from what I know.

A girl took a taxi from San Juan to Makati, on a Saturday and after 2 hours, the driver dropped her near Greenbelt saying he don't know how to get to Makati Ave. The girl showed the receipt for nearly 300 peso.