I love and loathe gabby cabbys with equal measure. When you just want to sit back in quiet contemplation or collect phone messages they behave like someone who's just been let out of solitary after a week.
But then when you are in the mood to listen they don't half come up with some amusing old twaddle and the occasional pearl.
Take my cabby today he took pleasure in telling me, after a tirade about pedestrians daring to use zebra crossings, that he has a 'philosophy' on driving which goes as follows:
1. Drive 90% for those outside the vehicle and 10% for yourself
2. Everyone outside the vehicle is a moron
3. Always beware of big brother (not speed camera's and the police as I thought but any vehicle that is bigger than your own).
All very, er, sound.
I think I might start collecting cabbyisms...