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Re: My Airport Pickup Driver
Posted: June 4 08, 2:11 pm
by 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.
Re: My Airport Pickup Driver
Posted: June 4 08, 2:11 pm
by Jocephus
DiLLaGii wrote:TabascoElvis wrote: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
Re: My Airport Pickup Driver
Posted: June 4 08, 2:15 pm
by 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.
Re: My Airport Pickup Driver
Posted: June 4 08, 2:17 pm
by Dillagii
Huge traffic at 4am in the morning? Welcome to Dubai!
Re: My Airport Pickup Driver
Posted: June 4 08, 2:19 pm
by cardinalkarp
DiLLaGii wrote:Huge traffic at 4am in the morning? Welcome to Dubai!
Yeah, how is that even possible? What are that many people doing at 4am?
Re: My Airport Pickup Driver
Posted: June 4 08, 2:20 pm
by TimeForGuinness
cardinalkarp wrote:DiLLaGii wrote: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.
Re: My Airport Pickup Driver
Posted: June 4 08, 2:21 pm
by cardinalkarp
TimeForGuinness wrote:cardinalkarp wrote:DiLLaGii wrote: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?
Re: My Airport Pickup Driver
Posted: June 4 08, 2:21 pm
by Dillagii
cardinalkarp wrote:DiLLaGii wrote: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.
Re: My Airport Pickup Driver
Posted: June 4 08, 2:22 pm
by cardinalkarp
DiLLaGii wrote:cardinalkarp wrote:DiLLaGii wrote: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.
Re: My Airport Pickup Driver
Posted: June 4 08, 2:24 pm
by Dillagii
cardinalkarp wrote:DiLLaGii wrote:cardinalkarp wrote:DiLLaGii wrote: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.