Speaker 1: I am bringing you a story today, Mitch and Laura,
Speaker 1: where I am looking for someone to back me up.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for someone to tell me that I was
Speaker 1: in the right you have come to the wrong place,
Speaker 1: that yeah, I should know better. So last week I
Speaker 1: had to go for work all the way over to Perth, right,
Speaker 1: so I had to go and do some talks and
Speaker 1: presentations over there.
Speaker 2: It was just like a one night thing, and I
Speaker 2: was staying at this.
Speaker 1: Hotel and I needed to leave the hotel and get
Speaker 1: to my next venue with all my luggage, do the
Speaker 1: presentations there, which was it was a big business lunch,
Speaker 1: and then I needed to go straight from there to
Speaker 1: the airport. So I had all my luggage. I've been
Speaker 1: there for I think two days. I had high heels
Speaker 1: on because I was like going to address the part,
Speaker 1: you know. So I left the hotel and I went
Speaker 1: down to get a taxi to the venue. Now the
Speaker 1: venue was only ten minutes away, it was pretty close.
Speaker 1: But I had huge luggage wheel on hand and high heels.
Speaker 1: So there's a taxi waiting. He's not doing anything. He
Speaker 1: is twiddling his thumbs. I saw him, so I walk
Speaker 1: over to him. I say, are you free, being polite,
Speaker 1: He says, yes, great, jump in love.
Speaker 2: When that happens, pops the boot.
Speaker 1: I put my luggage in, climb into the car, and
Speaker 1: then I say to him, sorry, I'm not actually going
Speaker 1: that far. I've just got to get to this venue,
Speaker 1: which is just down the road.
Speaker 3: He saw you with all your luggage and probably instantly
Speaker 3: thought airport.
Speaker 2: You're gone to the airport, girlfriend, one hundred percent. Guess what.
Speaker 1: It's irrelevant. His job as a taxi driver is to
Speaker 1: take me to where I want to go. I had
Speaker 1: to go ten minutes, right, and he says, oh, no,
Speaker 1: that's walk and I was like what. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I just need Can you please take me to this location?
Speaker 1: He said no, and I said sorry why? He goes,
Speaker 1: don't be lazy. Oh that's what he said. I wish
Speaker 1: I was making this up. He said, don't be lazy.
Speaker 1: You're being lazy. And he said it's two minutes and
Speaker 1: I said, no, it's not. And I pulled up a
Speaker 1: map and I showed him. I said, this will be
Speaker 1: a thirteen minute walk, which doesn't sound long, right, guys,
Speaker 1: But when I'm in high heels, running late with all
Speaker 1: of my luggage, I'm sorry, I'm not draping that. I said, sorry,
Speaker 1: it's not two minutes. Please, can you take me like
Speaker 1: you're free? And your light's on him in my car
Speaker 1: and we had a full on fight. He was no
Speaker 1: telling me how lazy I am and that I should
Speaker 1: be walking and not using a taxi.
Speaker 2: Why would you? And I was like, I'm paying your bills.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm trying to pay for you to
Speaker 1: take me somewhere money And I said please, I literally
Speaker 1: said wait.
Speaker 2: It gets worse. I said, please, can you take me? Please?
Speaker 1: Just take me down the road and come back. Nothing's
Speaker 1: gonna happen in that time. I'm paying you. I'm not
Speaker 1: asking for a favor. He gets out of the car.
Speaker 1: I'm still in the car, pops a boot, pulls my
Speaker 1: luggage out and puts my luggage on the street.
Speaker 2: That's so embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was not embarrassing. I got out and we
Speaker 1: were going each other. We were fully going each other.
Speaker 1: And I was so shocked that another taxi drove past,
Speaker 1: stopped his car in the middle of the road and
Speaker 1: he said, I'm sorry, is everything okay here? You're all right?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: Because this taxi driver was going me I've never experienced
Speaker 1: anything like it. And then I said, no, I'm not
Speaker 1: all right, and he's like, get in, I'm gonna take you,
Speaker 1: and each go. I was like, well, I just want
Speaker 1: you to know it's only five minutes, and he's like,
Speaker 1: that's fine, and he stopped and the taximan got in
Speaker 1: and slammed his door, and the nice taxi driver took me.
Speaker 2: But then I had this feeling of like, is I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Is there like an unspoken rule that you can't you
Speaker 1: have to drive more than ten minutes in a taxi?
Speaker 3: No, I'm sure that it's very frustrating and annoying for them,
Speaker 3: especially if they've been waiting for a long time for
Speaker 3: a longer a longer trip. But also, britt if I
Speaker 3: was you and in that situation, I wouldn't want to
Speaker 3: be any in the car with a guy like that,
Speaker 3: Like if he was yelling at me, if he was
Speaker 3: being hostile and I was late.
Speaker 2: But there is no part of me that with him
Speaker 2: behaving like that would make me want to be in that.
Speaker 4: Tax in the time that it took him to pick
Speaker 4: a fight with me. Sorry, I think we were brushing
Speaker 4: over the faith that you were gorgeous he could have
Speaker 4: dropped you in the time that it took to get out,
Speaker 4: take your.
Speaker 1: Back, and Mitch, thank you even said I'll pay him more.
Speaker 1: I tried to try to bribe him, and then I'm like,
Speaker 1: why am I trying to bribe him? But he could
Speaker 1: have in the time it took him to abuse me
Speaker 1: and pull my stuff out of the car. And I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm going to report you, and I was like, writing.
Speaker 2: Down, I was never going to report it, but give
Speaker 2: it to me. I'll write a letter. I love being
Speaker 2: angry about people. Gold he's right me or him, No,
Speaker 2: you're right. That sounds like very, very huge.
Speaker 4: And I did text each other, so I just agree
Speaker 4: with her because I think she's been upset as soon
Speaker 4: as you.
Speaker 2: Started yelling, before you'd even told the story, I was like,
Speaker 2: whatever she says, I'm going to say. Look, genuinely, I
Speaker 2: don't like confrontation. You're the nicest person I've ever met,
Speaker 2: and you're beautiful.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, But he's coming here. But it's more often