Quote Originally Posted by Rob View Post
Moose,

No matter what, it can be confusing as you didn't grow up using the system.

I am assuming here that you read on the taxi that it was indeed on its West End route. Since the route taxi was still on the route it remained a route taxi.

If you negotiated the fare, then the route taxi becomes a charter taxi. Technically they need to place a charter sign in the window so other potential passengers know that they won't be picked up. On a quick run this is rarely done.
Hi Rob,

Yeah.... this is where I totally went wrong. I assumed since it was a route taxi driving along the west end that it would indeed stay on it's route, and I'd get charged the 'route fare' even though he turned around. Now mind you this was from BCC to Pushcart, so not too far. I get in tell him Pushcart, and off we go. We get there, I give him a US $5 and start to get out and I hear "awww mon, can't you give me a better tip?" Wow, Ok so if this was $130J fare, I just gave you like a 400% tip. ok fine, maybe I chartered it and it was a bit more, I grab my wallet from my bag, grab another dollar and give it to him. Stick the wallet back in the bag (or so I thought) and get out and go into Pushcart. I'm sitting there enjoying my Red Stripe and the view when a worker comes up and asks "is this your wallet? I found it underneath the fence near the entrance. It had no money in it when I picked it up." I guess I didn't put it back in my bag, and it fell out either into the cab or on the sidewalk, someone picked it up, took the money out and tossed it. Lesson learned. Hope others can learn from my lesson as well.

~Moose