Sunday, June 17, 2007

A basic cab fare is $7.00CI in Cayman

It does not matter if you go 3 blocks or from the ESSO at Eastern Ave to Georgetown. It will cost you at least $7.00CI. The actual fare from Bed Restaurant to Georgetown is $7.50CI, but the ill-mannered, and overweight female heifers that usually drive the cabs (actually little mini-vans) always mark up the fare to $8.00CI. That's about $10.00US.

The following cab experiences are personal, but a couple have been experienced by a friend who also lives and works in Cayman. 

Cayman Island taxi drivers are overwhelmingly female. In my opinion they are probably driving cabs for a living because they have no other education and have to support their 6 bastard kids by 6 different men.  On one particular Sunday, one nasty minded woman  actually brought her two children along on her pick up mission. Mind you, natural born Caymanians do not work on Sunday's unless they have to.

From the mouth of my friend:  "This fat skank appeared to hate all that was human and ended up telling me off, putting words in my mouth, cursing in front of her children, threatening me with assault, and then trying to rip me off.  This cow works as a renegade driver and either borrowed another drivers cab, or had her own cab as an independent driver.  She had a yellow sign in her windshield and listened to the calls coming through from her home base at "Yellow Cab"." 

Yellow Cab has now merged with ACE (we'll get to that later), but you can still ring them up at 444 4444 wait forever for someone to pick up, and then get quality degenerates like the one above to pick you up.  Interestingly enough, this major experience inspired my friend to finally purchase a little beater of a car for herself.

Charlie's is another cab company that employs strictly Caymanian drivers, make sure you lose their 888 8888 number (most of their drivers are lazy, uneducated, and talk way too much). Other "prizes" you can get on a Charlie's cab ride is a woman named "Karen". She could have been an ex-model from the collarbone up. Apparently she thinks she is one, and makes herself up in the most garish make-up that actually matches the inside of her ridiculously decorated van. She will sit in the cab and mutter all kinds of things to herself and laugh out loud when the dispatcher takes an order and then hangs up quickly on customers requesting a cab.

"ACE" taxi is the other option at 777 7777. Now you can have your pick of Jamaican taxi drivers, male and female with some seriously snotty "back-a-yard" type behavior. Once provoked they can be quite amusing in their antics. It does not take much to provoke one of these female creatures. Simply asking where they were after showing up late, is enough to cause an avalanche of hateful words. Just ask my friend whose gorilla-face, bible thumping cab driver called upon God with the following sentence: "by the blood of Jesus, God get this Satan out of my car". My friend is far from being Satan. However, an uneducated, female Jamaican cab driver who goes to church may get confused in whom to actually hate.

ACE also has an old Black Jamaican man who drives for them. He spends most of the ride cursing out, complaining, and resenting other races, drivers, cabbies, and tourists. He sits in his drivers seat and talks about "bad-minded" people, hateful people, and wishes ill on all those countless enemies that cross his path in your 10 minute cab ride that you are paying for. When he gets to your destination he invariably will tell you to "pay what you normally pay". When you give him the money he looks as though you've stolen his best pair of shoes.

If it wasn't for all the tourists and ex-pats on the island these companies would have no business.

These money hungry, ungrateful, digusting cabbies that drive for the Caymanian taxi companies should all be taken to the Cayman dump and shot unceremoniously in the back of their heads with a rubber bullet. When they wake up the next day covered in garbage, and smelling like garbage, they will be representing what kind of people they truly are - garbage!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well actually the drivers only want to pick up a group of white tourists. They are on their best behavior for the expectant big tip. The rest of the time they are just ghetto bitches with no book sense. I don't use them personally, but I heard all the stories.

TIP: When you first get in the van politely introduce yourself and obtain their business card. They will then be more inclined to behave themselves.

Anonymous said...

Politely get the bitches name when introducing yourself when you
first get in the cab. Then ask for a business card so that you can use
their "services" again. then the cows won't be so quick to turn on you
once the ride gets started.

I've been made to wait in a taxi
while prescriptions were being picked up, and one of them was getting
something to eat at a drive thru.
Like I wasn't paying for the ride, stupid whales.

Anonymous said...

This post had me laughing my butt off. I am extrememly grateful for having picked up a Japanese make car for $3000 last month, because I had to endure some of these same foolish characters.

It's amazing that the cabbies are mostly women. Fat and ugly to look upon at that.