Taxi, Taxi!

I don’t think I would have survived even this long without the other wives who’s husbands are in the program with Mister. This is one in a million examples of why.

Sometimes it is worth the money to take a taxi in Nanjing. Good excuses reasons include: it is raining, you are with enough people that splitting the bill means you pay less than $1, you have too many things to carry and squeeze on the metro, and/or you just have no idea how to get where you need to go.

3 out of 4 applied as we left for a get-together at the Relief Society President’s home. I had never taken a taxi without Mister and had never tried to get one in the rain. Oh, what an experience.

-Green=the taxi is full, yellow=off duty, red=open for business--but not always.
-Chinese are aggressive and WILL steal your cab regardless of who was there first.
-Sometimes you must cross the street in the middle of traffic, praying you won’t get hit, if you want to get a cab.
-You may get rejected, even if all four of you hurry and sit IN the cab before telling the driver where you need to go.
-If you are standing in the rain trying desperately to call a cab, you will get laughed at by onlooking natives.
-You will get a cab eventually, even if the driver grumbles the whole way home.

Do you see that green light on the car next to the bus? THAT is a taxi--a full one. (I seriously tried to get a good picture--I sat at this cross walk until I was getting to many crazy looks to stay any longer. :) )

Doesn't green mean go? I always have to think for a second before waving for a cab since it isn't that way with the taxis.

 

 

 

 

 For good measure, here are some pictures that CAN'T be ruined thanks to the people who are in them.

Miss A kept sharing the books with Great Grandpa :)

She just loves her Aunt J!

The cute girls with their young (great) grandparents!

We have some good things coming to share with you...I