My Airport Pickup Driver

[G. Keenan]

Oddest cab driver request I've had was pulling over on the side of the interstate between O'Hare Airport and the city so he could take a leak.

I said sure.

[Jocephus]

not to hi-jack this tremendous thread, but I ran across this image the other day and it really blew me away. I'm taking the poster at their word on dates, maybe clement can comment on veracity.

The poster is right on the dates. It just blows you away how much Dubai have changed in the last decade.

thats amazing

[clement]

The thing about Dubai is that it used to not even be a city. It was pretty much a village. So yeah, it went from being almost nothing to the mega-skyscrapered metropolis that it is today. Another example is Shenzhen China, which only about 25 years ago was a fishing village of a few thousand and today is a megalopolis of something like 8 or 9 million people.

The driver was not a taxi driver that you hail from the road, he was a driver sent in a plain fancy auto by the hotel to pick up a hotel guest that was arriving in the middle of the night. To me, no matter where you are, it's totally inappropriate to drag a very tired person who just came off an airplane from overseas with you to eat dinner at a fast-food restaurant at 4 in the morning.

[Dillagii]

Huge traffic at 4am in the morning? Welcome to Dubai!

[cardinalkarp]

Huge traffic at 4am in the morning? Welcome to Dubai!

Yeah, how is that even possible? What are that many people doing at 4am?

[TimeForGuinness]

Huge traffic at 4am in the morning? Welcome to Dubai!

Yeah, how is that even possible? What are that many people doing at 4am?

probably building skyscrapers...they have to be working multiple shifts to build that much over 10+ years.

[cardinalkarp]

Huge traffic at 4am in the morning? Welcome to Dubai!

Yeah, how is that even possible? What are that many people doing at 4am?

probably building skyscrapers...they have to be working multiple shifts to build that much over 10+ years.

Enough to cause massive traffic jams?

[Dillagii]

Huge traffic at 4am in the morning? Welcome to Dubai!

Yeah, how is that even possible? What are that many people doing at 4am?

Its friday night and the life in Dubai starts at 9pm on Weekends and Holidays. Shops/Restaurants all will be open throughout the night.

[cardinalkarp]

Huge traffic at 4am in the morning? Welcome to Dubai!

Yeah, how is that even possible? What are that many people doing at 4am?

Its friday night and the life in Dubai starts at 9pm on Weekends and Holidays. Shops/Restaurants all will be open throughout the night.

I didn't notice that it was a Friday night but that's still crazy.

[Dillagii]

Huge traffic at 4am in the morning? Welcome to Dubai!

Yeah, how is that even possible? What are that many people doing at 4am?

Its friday night and the life in Dubai starts at 9pm on Weekends and Holidays. Shops/Restaurants all will be open throughout the night.

I didn't notice that it was a Friday night but that's still crazy.

Yeah. When my parents visited here they were asking me like why the hell all the shops are closed at 10pm.