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[aussie col]

I always had trouble wit taxi drivers and E-Mart. When I first arrived in Korea my school was neat an E-Mart store so I would always just try and ask to go to E-Mart. They could never understand me and I would just end up pointing left and right until we got there. At that point the taxi driver would say ��Ah! E-Marta��. It took me a few weeks to work out that I had to ask for E-Marta and not E-Mart.

Once after flying back from Thailand I arrived by train into Daegu at about 2am. By this time I had moved into a new apartment and always had difficulty trying to get drivers to understand where the apartment was. The easiest thing I found, if they didn��t understand my directions, was to tell them E-Marta and then give them directions once we got close. This one guy decided that he was going to take me to E-Mart at 2am. When we were near I tried telling him to go in the direction of my apartment but he insisted that we go to E-Mart. So here we are at 2am out the front of E-mart and surprise, surprise I didn��t want to get out. He finally got the message and followed my direction to my apartment.

One time I had a woman taxi driver in Daegu. This I saw only once. By the time we got to our destination, myself and the other teacher with me had to literally pry out fingers out of the back seat. This woman was crazy. On the 5 minute trip we nearly hit 2 cars and a bus.

[JackSarang]

Was about 5 of us druken lads in a taxi in Itaewon one night. We were being very boisterous and as we're driving down the Itaewon strip.. being drunken fools we were making lewd comments to each other about the hot girls that we were slowly passing on the traffic jammed strip.

Out of no-where the taxi driver who seemed completely oblivious up to this point, turns around, points to a girl, joining in on our lewdness and says in perfect english, "How about her? She looks like she's got a tight c**t." We all completely lost it and for the next 10 minutes he joined in on our critiques.

[wylde]

[ajuma]

Ok...I'll add my funny taxi driver story!

I had to take a taxi a LONG way (about an hour). The taxi drive spoke a little bit of English. We went through the usual "How old are you" "Are you married". "Where are you from"? No problem!

A few minutes later, I get "I like you!" Ok...whatever.... "Oh, thank you."

A few minutes after that... "I like you! I love you! I want sex!"

What do you say???? I just said "No thanks...not tonight!"

[just because]

My best taxi story....
There was me and 2 other guys(drunks) one night in Busan. We got in this cab and said Haeundae Beach and off we went.
Anyway, this guy loves the Beatles, convo went like this.

Cabbie: You Beatles like??
Drunks: Yeah Ok
Cabbie: I have many many song, lets sing
Drunks: Sounds good

So anyway, it was great and we sang Beatles songs all the way from Sasang to Haeundae with the taxi driver clapping in time(and forgetting to drive). Funny stuff. Then we get near the Maccas drive-thru at haeundae.

Cabbie: You Macadonalda like????
Drunks: Yeah
Cabbie: I buy now
Drunks: Ok

So he bought us all a Big Mac set each. Good trip.

[aussie col]

One time there were a few of us stuck in a traffic jam. The taxi driver knew a little English, just enough to ask where we were from ect�� Then he pulls out his phone and from my very little understanding of Korean rings his wife and starts telling here that he has an Australian a New Zealander and an American in his cab. Anyway he ends up passing the phone around so we can all say hello to her.

[captain kirk]

I lived in Cheonan (an hour straight south of Seoul) and the train would get in late Sunday night when me and everybody else would line up at the station and get a cab. One night the driver was a cheerful, upbeat sort who smiled and said 'ok!' alot (and really meant it) so when he didn't slow down and ran bump over a streaking cat and I said, gesturing, that he'd just flattened a cat he said, beaming as usual good naturedly, 'ok!'. A while later I got into a cab again coming back late from Seoul and thought I'd recognized the same driver but when I began to 'tell' him about his running over of a cat he just looked at me with great sympathy and amusement like 'you're crazy, aren't you?'. Since then I saw a woman who didn't slow down in the slightest for a streaking cat which got momentarily tangled in the car's moving underparts but managed to roll and regain its footing and carry on unscathed but shaken. Are cats just furry insect pests in Korea? Apparently, to some, there's no question. They eat garbage, so they must be garbage.