The neighbor has a taxi stand on the corner, just below her house. There are two or three free, with the green light. Lucky! She approaches with the intention of contributing to the business but no one opens the door for her. The excuses turn out to be crooked: “Well, no, I'm waiting for some gentlemen from the hotel”, “sorry the sign has been left up!”, “nothing, I was already folding”.
If the neighbor in question, instead of being a normal citizen with the appearance of going ten streets higher because her back hurts, were a father of a foreign family, with the suitcases in sight, a float and pints to take a tour to the airport, the three taxis would have met her.
He has it very proven, it is not a coincidence. It happens every day of every week of every month in recent years in this and other cities. Every season I dedicate a column to the taxi guild, of which I am a great user, and, until now, a defender. But this practice of a small part of the sector (their union representative called them “garbage”), like so many, is beginning to revolt me.
Taxi and Uber share picaresque, although some more than others, and the second at exorbitant prices. The citizen pretends that she points out the license plate of the offending taxi. The taxi driver, by obligation, should let her in; It is a service that does not work as a nightclub with the right of admission. And she is not going to change into a Russian millionaire wanting a luxurious round of the city.
How different the arrogance of this worker anchored like a tick before the five-star hotel compared to the humility of the taxi driver who last Sunday, in the heat of the heat, waited at the door of the Santa Coloma cemetery to accompany those who come to mourn their dead .
And adjusted prices.
