What kind of cab driver is your least favorite?

[ ] inquisitive cabbie
[ ] angry cabbie
[ ] political cabbie
[ ] biblical/apocalyptic cabbie
[ ] slightly perverted cabbie
[ ] other (please specify)


Inquisitive cabbies don't mean you any harm, for the most part. For some reason they just want to know where you live, where you're originally from, if you're married, what you took up in college, what you do for a living, if that's what you originally wanted to do for a living and if you have any other life long dreams or goals you want to work on. Slightly perverted cabbie won't actually harass you physically, but you'll probably be made uncomfortable by his selection of green jokes that he thinks are a riot. Occasionally, you will encounter a cabbie that is two or more. For example, politcal cabbie who is also angry cabbie or angry cabbie who is also biblical/apocalyptic cabbie and is convinced that the world is coming to an end and that you are at your very last chance to repent and change your ways.

My most recent scary encounter with a cabbie (an angry cabbie) happened just a few months back. He kept yelling at every car that drove by, whether they actually passed him or not, claimed that he was in the right - that, in fact, he was the only remaining decent driver in the whole of Metro Manila - and that if people were more like him, there probably wouldn't be wars going on in the Middle East. Meanwhile, I was holding on for dear life, wondering if he wasn't a suicide pilot in a past incarnation. He was driving so fast that when we hit a small hole in the road the whole car jerked violently and I hit my head on the window. There was a resounding thump. Did I say thump? I meant  whack.  Anyway, I must have looked really funny because the cab driver laughed like it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen. And then he decided we needed some music and played a Bon Jovi album. Figures.