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[Member #4387]

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.

This is perfect and reading your comments almost got me back in phils. The "Huh?" comment is fabiolous. As I see a big different between the more educated and mature crowd of girls (25+) vs the young and uneducated. In the future I will not make anymore effort to have a normal text handling with these girls. It won't work as putting together more than a few words will make it to difficult for them (once again this goes for the youngsters, above legal age ofcourse). That is a totaly and utterly waste of I e important drinking time.

[Member #4387]

Any trip I conduct myself into I want to run as smooth as possible. I guess we all do. But talking about the Manila cabbies I have had very little problems taxiwice for small trips within the city and theyve used meter. In my life that means between Malate and Makati, and if lazy from Glorietta 4 to Greenbelt. I run more and more into a prebooked arrangments and have hotelcar picking me. My latest trip I was running late for a spinnervisit so did not have time to shop around so at T2 I ended up taking one taxi from the airports taximafia. Charged me 1200 for the trip and the guy arranging it even had the nerve to ask for tip. Just gave him the evil eye (yes I can also look frightning). I saved some piso as hotel car is usualy 1800. This evening there was just to long waitingline for the yellow taxies (and watching this for 5 minutes without even one single of mentioned taxis showing up made me give up my money saving project).

In some places I have designated drivers for planned excursions (they are trustable and on time, I pay them fair but nothing out of this world). The ad hoc ones goes by normal taxi and preferably by meter (my normal line is "no cheating ok, I have been here many times" nothing special about this comment but said with a smile it seems to work).

But it was good fun reading LAT's post. Chuckled quite a bit.

[FruitNinja]

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.

FF,

That was hilarious.

[FruitNinja]

having just made the above statement, i went and tried to edit my original post but i've found that i can no longer do that. I'm not really worried as most people know there limits and wont attempt this at home or here in the phils. Enough said, LAT

LAT,

I can understand your frustration. I try to remember to put a disclaimer in my posts for the same reason. Everyone of us is different. We are from different cultural backgrounds, different upbringing, and individuals. My experiences are what's acceptable for me. The prices I pay are what's acceptable for me. I usually don't report what I pay because invariably it will turn into a pissing match about "ruining it for everyone." We spend an in-exorbitant amount of time on price point. Followed by talk about starfish and runner type of behavior. Well yeah, the girl is more likely to run if she's getting half of what she's expecting. Now I'm not saying that a great time can't be had even when you negotiated down but in my opinion your chances are less likely.

FN

[Steve Nash]

Thats another way to handle it, but I've been on the road traveling from poon point to poon point for a solid year and a half now and have way to much luggage to be walking down lumpy uneven mabini street at any time of day. .

LAT

Just take it as a pre-workout before getting some pussy.

By the way, an advise for anyone traveling with multiple luggages: Don't buy cheap luggages! Because they break easily!

I broke one luggage in the airport with my gf, and then I broke another 2 luggages while walking down the street alone (the handles break easily).

3 of my 4 luggages broke and the one that didn't brake was the expensive one.

[Steve Nash]

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.

I agree with FreebieFan with replying with a self amusement comment.

LOL I said something similar to this girl who text me: "Have you had your lunch?"

I said: "Not yet, but I'm waiting for you to come here, lay on my table naked with your legs open so I can start eating".

Her reply: "LOL" and then she change of subject.

[LuvAsianTang]

You made a mistake by accepting the 300 pesos, there is not reason to stay and pay a crook taxi driver in my book.

Something similar happened to me twice, one outside Mall of Asia and one outside the airport. On both cases when they didn't want to use the taximeter or they were charging me too much I just got out of the taxi and took the next taxi, the one outside the airport wanted to charge me 500 pesos to go to Makati (when he saw my luggages) , so I got out and took the next taxi and paid only 200 pesos.

I know Ermita is a bit more dangerous, but I been walking with my luggage for 5 blocks around Del Pilar and Mabini street to my hotel Riviera Mansion (which is beside Tune Hotel) , and nothing happened to me during the day. If that happened at night, I would had just found the closest hotel (which by the way there are lots around that area) , and ask the security guard with uniform to watch my luggages until I find a taxi (of course I will tip him first, half before and half after). You probably end it up paying more but at least you don't give the pleasure of giving your hard earn money to a crook taxi driver.

By the way an advice for anyone coming out from Manila airport, if you want to save money just take the local bus, they have a stop inside the airport (don't remember how much I paid, but around 20 to 50 pesos) , and you can go to certain areas in Manila and then you can take a cheap taxi from there. Those buses have a big space in front for you to leave your luggages.

Thats another way to handle it, but I've been on the road traveling from poon point to poon point for a solid year and a half now and have way to much luggage to be walking down lumpy uneven mabini street at any time of day. .

LAT

[Steve Nash]

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.

You made a mistake by accepting the 300 pesos, there is not reason to stay and pay a crook taxi driver in my book.

Something similar happened to me twice, one outside Mall of Asia and one outside the airport. On both cases when they didn't want to use the taximeter or they were charging me too much I just got out of the taxi and took the next taxi, the one outside the airport wanted to charge me 500 pesos to go to Makati (when he saw my luggages) , so I got out and took the next taxi and paid only 200 pesos.

I know Ermita is a bit more dangerous, but I been walking with my luggage for 5 blocks around Del Pilar and Mabini street to my hotel Riviera Mansion (which is beside Tune Hotel) , and nothing happened to me during the day. If that happened at night, I would had just found the closest hotel (which by the way there are lots around that area) , and ask the security guard with uniform to watch my luggages until I find a taxi (of course I will tip him first, half before and half after). You probably end it up paying more but at least you don't give the pleasure of giving your hard earn money to a crook taxi driver.

By the way an advice for anyone coming out from Manila airport, if you want to save money just take the local bus, they have a stop inside the airport (don't remember how much I paid, but around 20 to 50 pesos) , and you can go to certain areas in Manila and then you can take a cheap taxi from there. Those buses have a big space in front for you to leave your luggages.

[LuvAsianTang]

Fellow members of the forum, I didn't write my initial report looking to receive acclaim or [CodeWord140] in any ones mess kit. It had just happened and I wanted to share my experience. Apparently some of you find it necessary to directly condemn me for my actions. If you want to say " I would not do that" then that's cool and entirely up to you.

But please don't tell me I should have done this or done that, I am, after all, a grown up and fully aware that my actions have ramifications. I'm also confident enough and prepared enough to handle what comes down the pike. If I were to compare myself to a food, it would be a hearty beef stew with a few habanero's thrown in to weed out the weak. I'm just not a milk toast kind of guy, and never will be.

If you met me you would know that I'm very polite, kind and concerned for my fellow travelers. I just don't take crap from a punk ass taxi criminal.

I will edit my original post to add a disclaimer for those who may not have the chutzpah, cajones, or what ever you want to call it, to pull it off.

having just made the above statement, i went and tried to edit my original post but i've found that i can no longer do that. I'm not really worried as most people know there limits and wont attempt this at home or here in the phils.

Enough said, LAT

[LuvAsianTang]

If you guys previewed your posts before posting we wouldn't get the chaos that arises in the past 2 posts where the reports "quoted" were not done correctly.

Previewing your posts shows this fuckup clearly and you can then correct it using the "edit post" then

Save changes" buttons.

It might have stopped LAT from attacking FF when he should have attacked Luke SW

Actually luke was talking about the us not the phils.

LAT

[Hutsori]

If you guys previewed your posts before posting we wouldn't get the chaos that arises in the past 2 posts where the reports "quoted" were not done correctly.

+1.

That taxi driver learnt a valuable lesson, too. Next time when fleecing whitey make sure to collect the demanded amount before resuming the drive. :p

[Red Kilt]

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

Good luck with that then LAT.

Whilst I agree in principle with EVERYTHING you say, the reality is that pinoys do not fight fair and also don't follow the Marquesse of Queensbury's boxing rules in altercations. You may find you are taking on 6 or more guys armed with everything from guns to knives to chains to broken bottles to sticks with nails in them etc. It has happened before and will happen again; I just hope for your sake it's not with you as a fellow forum member.

As you said, the cabbie may not be concerned as he got a good payout from you anyway and you obviously know your way around the streets and he might sense that. I just hope that any other wannabee Jack Reachers reading your post don't figure that rules in other places necessarily follow in the Philippines, and particularly in the cesspool that is Malate / Ermita.

[Red Kilt]

If you guys previewed your posts before posting we wouldn't get the chaos that arises in the past 2 posts where the reports "quoted" were not done correctly.

Previewing your posts shows this fuckup clearly and you can then correct it using the "edit post" then
save changes" buttons.

It might have stopped LAT from attacking FF when he should have attacked Luke SW

[LuvAsianTang]

"Wonder if you could pull that kind of leverage in Manilla? .[/QUOTE]I think you must be totally new or not well indoctinated to the country to realise that its 1% organised and 99% pure chaos.

Good luck finding a cop who is interested in your story.

Good luck finding a cabbie who feels his job is threatened by a whitey.

Good luck finding a cab operator who takes the word of his tagalog speaking driver versus a white passenger.

Sorry to say, but you give yourself too much credit.

Your status as a passenger counts for very little.

Just be polite, non demanding and most of the time everything will be just fine" [ quote ]


Yeah freebiefan, I'm new here iv'e only been traveling se asia since 1976 (sarcasm) I've made at least 2 month long trips every year since. I was even here when Marcos was deposed, I had a Huey hovering at my window for about 30 seconds as I looked upon it with hungover eyes lol.

I'm always polite until someone tries to rip me off, then my whole attitude changes. The points you are trying to make don't even relate to my post. Never did I mention looking for a cop, nor did I threaten his job. I didn't call the cab operator, nor do I give a fuck about my status as a customer.

I don't whine to anyone about my problems I just handle them at the moment they arise. If you choose to bend over, grab your ankles, and take it so be it. Bring your own ky.

Have a good day, LAT.

P. S its indoctrinated and realize.

[FreebieFan]

[QUOTE=LukeSkywalker; 1564137.

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? .[/QUOTE]I think you must be totally new or not well indoctinated to the country to realise that its 1% organised and 99% pure chaos.

Good luck finding a cop who is interested in your story.

Good luck finding a cabbie who feels his job is threatened by a whitey.

Good luck finding a cab operator who takes the word of his tagalog speaking driver versus a white passenger.

Sorry to say, but you give yourself too much credit.

Your status as a passenger counts for very little.

Just be polite, non demanding and most of the time everything will be just fine.