Dec 4, 2004
We went to see the canal today. Mark and I arranged to hire a cab for two hours for ten dollars an hour. The canal was fairly impressive, and we got to film a local announcer giving a spiel about it in spanish. Then we filmed a group of four guys taking turns standing in front of the canal and photographing each other in very dramatic poses. On the way back, we asked the cabdriver to take us up the canal a little, and he started yelling that we only hired him to drive us to the canal and back. So I turned the camera on and Mark debated with him the meaning of hiring a taxi for two hours. The cab driver explained that it was his car and not ours and he would drive it where he wanted. We had only been there a half hour, so told him we would only pay him for the half hour and fifteen minutes he took us there, or 7 dollars. He went nuts again and told us he would take us to the police. Evidently the best thing to do when that happens is to tell them to. He drove us back to the hotel, and we paid him $10 for his hour. Evidently he didn't understand that two hours means two hours of going where ever we want. Mark explained to him that we could pay him to park the cab for two hours or drive it in a circle around the hotel and it was the same $20, and that the driver was stupid not to earn the other ten dollars. The driver said that no matter what, two hours didn't include going further up the canal, and Mark should respect him and not call him stupid. It was actually quite funny to watch.
I'm wondering if a show couldn't be made of just getting in cabs and infuriating the drivers.
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