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| - I have been wanting to take a pedi-cab for a while, but haven't had the chace or a reason. Tonight, celebrating my recent engagement, my fiance and I went to Friday's Front Row at Chase Field. As we went in, there was one particularly interesting pedi-cab driver aggressively looking for business. When we were done with dinner, a while after the game let out, he was there, and we decided to let him take us for a ride back to our hotel.
This is where things got interesting.
He drove us in circles along the front of the ballpark, almost running us into polls and pedestrians multiple times. We should have stopped him and removed ourselves from potential danger then, but for some reason we didn't. Maybe it was my penchant for putting my life in danger. I'm not sure. he then started off on the road to the hotel. The problem was that he wasn't heading to our hotel. We tried to explain to thim multiple times where he should be heading. "Roosevelt and Central," we told him. "The Best Western on Central," we said. He continued in the wrong direction spouting something about Hollywood.
Finally, after a half dozen close calls and a few drops off curbs, we got him heading the right way. What seemed to be a personality to match his bright yellow shirt and pedi-cab seemed to be going from Jeckyll to Hyde. He was becoming more manic, talking faster, harder to understand. We got to 5th St. and made him oull over. We figured a beer at Lost Leaf was called for after a long day and a dozen near death experiences over the span of less than ten minutes.
He had told us when we got in the cab initially that it was all donation-based and that he would take us anywhere we wanted to go for $1 each. We got out of the pedi-cab and gave the guy $10. He turned pretty irate. He demanded that we give him at least $25 due to the distance he had to travel (what should have been less than a mile). When we didn't he started to get in my fiance's face who promptly told him to back off and go away. He did.
Unfortunately, he went off with my favorite lighter.
Most pedi-cab drivers, I imagine, are cool people who aren't completely insane, but do avoid this particular company or at least this particular driver.
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