My first major faux pas in gib was in relation to just this. They drive around in huge 7 seater vans and charge you an additional quid if you are more than two people?! And they charge you extra if you have any bags! Hilarious. What is less hilarious are the cabbies who have fixed their meter… see their rate starts at £2.40, you are then charged 15p per minute or 200m whichever comes first, HOWEVER in some cabs it more 15p per 15 seconds, or they’ll have their own exchange rates if you pay in euro, usually €2 to the pound. Lovely. And then of course charging you two rates if you decide to go to the border with someone also waiting in the queue. It was the extra passenger charge that led me to call the cabbie a gibbo – I believe my exact words were: you gibbos do know how to over charge. Wonder why no one likes them...
Saw a pathetic sign today for bicycle week… I’m not sure who is behind this clever idea, but they sure don’t know that much about human behaviour. No one is going to start cycling for ONE WEEK only because of some pathetic sign. And if you’re trying to get more overweight polluting locals to take the bike instead of the car it probably will take a lot more than “bicycle week”. However applying the lack of reason law they all seem to apply it might just work wonders for the traffic…
There is a brilliant clip on youtube where someone calls up the Gib gov and wants to speak to Curana, claiming to be Tony Blair telling them Gordon Brown is selling Gib to the Americans :)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MqckNjzSVLU
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Since I still haven't got one single comment I thought I would lead the way being the first!
That clip is hilarious! Especially the fact that the Gib(bo) on the other line does seem to
object!!!
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