Well, according to crazy LauraBeachnut, you might if she was an attractive naked WHITE woman. Lol

@LauraBeachnut

I think you’ve won the award for craziest post. Incidenally, stereotyping anyone is silly. I once worked for a Persian Law Firm owned by Jewish Persians, yet 99 percent of the client was Islamic Persians, and everyone get along exceptionally well with everyone else, including me, the sole Christian

An 85% tip? Not even if the driver was an attractive naked woman.

Tax drivers make their money off their gratuities.

NEW YORKERS ARE CHEAP!

The proper tip for any luxury is 3 times the amount of a regular service however, new yorkers are SO DAMN CHEAP, instead of tipping twenty percent at a restaurant they will only tip twice the tax ! Thats less than %17.

CHEAP!

And you gottah love the people who use the excuse, “they are from Europe so they don’t tip there”. Even though they learn our language, learn our culture, learn our geography better than we know it and they know right from wrong, they come here and use that poor lame ass excuse. GIVE ME A BREAK

CHEAP!

If you want to know how to properly tip someone who is a vendor, its like this.

Before I get into this, I would like to express that tipping a TAXI DRIVER is much different from tipping a WAITER or WAITRESS or the chick at the door who takes your coat.

TIPPING A TAXI DRIVER:
**if you take the taxi less than 6 days per week**
%40
$4.00 Minimum
$20.00 Maximum

example:
BILL = $0 to $10 $4.00 tip
BILL = $50 to infinity = $20.00

AIRPORT or log trips %40 of the trip total
Unless its a SET FEE (set fee, follow the %40 rule)

**if you take the taxi less everyday, 6 days more more**

It’s very easy.
Round UP to the nearest dollar and add $2.00

example.
If your bill is $3.20
ROUND UP to $4.00 and add $2.00
TOTAL $6.00

WHY NOT %20?
%20 is great for a server
However, a server does not have to shell out close to $300.00 before they start making a dollar.

Eating is a necessity, not a luxury.
Taxi’s are a luxury item so they should be tipped so.

It’s weird how we will tip the cute white girl who gets our coat $10.00 and it take no effort or expense on her part and we will give the doorman a $5 bill to hail a taxi and he stands there with his hand out but we will crawl in a taxi and he will get you to your destination and use his skills so you arrive in one piece and we tip one dollar (half of that is stolen by Mayor Bloomberg and his chorines).

WAKE UP PEOPLE.
The only reason you assist in this exploitation of taxi drivers is because the majority of them are muslim and YOU HATE MUSLIMS.

The word has gotten out that its a bloodbath with taxi drivers and now people are systematically trying to rip them off. IT’S NOTHING MORE THAN A MODERN DAY CONCENTRATION CAMP!

These people have to earn a living and you people want to do everything you can to KEEP THE GENOCIDE GOING !

That taxi driver should have gotten more than a stupid Ipod. She should have been taken to jail just like anyone else that would steal from a vendor.

New York City Is NO melting pot.

It is a city that has a lot of people in it, but I never seen cheese melt in CUBES!

It has its this neighborhood and that neighborhood and only hires their own race kind of crowed. A complete throwback to the 1940s. Just check craigslist, New York (and all of its legalized freedoms) actually ignore the fact that companies are breaking federal law and asking for photos to be submitted with their resume to ensure the fact that they do not have to hire most minorities and particularly African Americans.

What does this have to do with TAXI DRIVERS?

Answer:……… EVERYTHING

You see, the strong hold in this city (that is financial strong hold) would be Jewish People. And if the Non-Mainstream media were to put the proverbial writing on the wall and told you, “what do Jewish People HATE the MOST?

If you said Muslims, you would be more than likely correct.
Now then, What is the face of taxi drivers known the world over…
if you said MUSLIM, give yourself a sweet carrot!

The fact is that since Taxi Drivers are never seen in the media like some cops are (shooting people “by mistake”, raping women, handcuffing and dating underaged children and so on ) they are seen as the bottom of the bottom of the barrel, yet they do things to improve their situations case by case and in the process, they get shafted by the media and government and people like you and me.

Nothing I said is wrong, so before you give your quick knee jerk reaction, read on.

Why is it that taxi drivers of NYC pay out of pocket for things they absolutely do not have any reason to pay for. I forget what it’s called but there is this transportation tax that taxi drivers pay and it basically take half of their gratuity. Taxi drivers make their money off of their gratuity

I kinda look at it like she was a young girl with a “new experience” and when a person in a uniform with a badge said “leave your IPod” (even though they are not “cops” they are still persons of authority)…she did. As quickly as everything probably took place…I can’t say I would have been at the top of my game when I was 20…experience has taught me to handle some of these things a lot better. But I would have been shaking in my boots.

I do concur that I would prefer to have cash available for the cab ride but…we really NEVER use cabs (at least not here in Texas). I wouldn’t have a CLUE how much a cab ride to the airport was. Usually when I travel anywhere I have a rental car…never been to New York. I know Washington DC was a completely different animal. My rental stayed parked at the hotel and I ended up using the Metro for everything. But I never got in a Taxi.

Now…a couple of weirds things to me…

#1 The whole bank and transfer the money thing. Credit cards don’t require you to have “X” amount of money in the bank…that’s why they’re CREDIT cards…they give you “credit” for the amount you need and you pay later. DEBIT cards may limit you to the amount you have in the bank.

#2 Leaving an “Chicken” (aka the IPod)to pay for services…as apparently “imposed” by the “port authority” as per the stories of both the girl and the taxi driver…WOW…that just seems to be TOTALLY out of line. I’d say the Port Authority should issue and apology to both the taxi driver and the girl…I’m guessing they just wanted them out of “traffic”. I believe she should have been escorted to the nearest ATM and asked to withdraw the money.

#3 Why was only a SINGLE “credit card” her only means of payment? What would have happened if she “lost” her card? Lesson #1 NEVER travel ANYWHERE with only a “single” credit card and absolutely no emergency funds.