Good times!
For the non-New Yorker’s out there – in panel three “balloon Kelly” is trying to hail a cab and is approached by a ‘livery cab’. These are legitimate cabs (well mostly) but they don’t have a meter, so you need to negotiate a price before you get in. Also, to give you some perspective, the metered cab ride that I took from my neighborhood to this event (in heavier traffic headed downtown than I would get headed uptown) cost about twelve bucks, and I gave him fifteen bucks, so even with a good tip, that trip shouldn’t be more than fifteen dollars. Livery cabs generally cost a little more, but not double.
Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. Mine blew. What a shock. Onto the next, right?
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Well, if anything, your comic today taught how to negotiate properly with livery cabs! 😛
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Yeah, I’d normally say to be more polite than I was in this cartoon, but when they try to rape charge you $30 for a ride that should be $15 max, feel free to get rude.
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