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Free rides for soused Cambridge revelers
By adamg on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 11:09am
Drink at a Cambridge establishment on New Year's Eve and get a free cab voucher (for the first $35 worth of your ride, at any rate, but the tip is not included).
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How can they afford that??
How can they afford that?? Seems very expensive if people actually use it.
I havent taken a taxi for a while, I wonder how far 35 dollars would get you ?
Far enough if you live in
Far enough if you live in town at all. I can get from Kendall to South Station for around 7 bucks.
I'd also like to know how they will afford it, but my thinking is after I drink 10 or so $15 martini's... I mean come on, how much can 15 shots of Goose actually cost? That doesn't include the rest of my group of course ;)
"Um, driver? I've still got
"Um, driver? I've still got $27 left on my voucher. Can you *hic* drive around my block a couple hundred times?"
Honor system, of sorts
Yeah, $35 will get you from Cambridge to, like, Concord. So most people aren't going to be using anywhere near the whole $35.
My thinking is that people in general are honest and don't take advantage of community resources. People who really are trashed and have no way home will have a means to get home safely, but I don't think a whole lot of people are just going to be like "hey, free cab ride! I'm gonna go get trashed without making plans to get home!"
I think I'm pretty average in terms of morals and whatnot. Sure, I had a two-second "hey! free cab ride!" thought pass through my head, but I honestly think this is really a nice idea and wouldn't want to see them have to stop doing it, so I'm sure not going to screw with it.
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com
I hope there are enough cabs
I hope there are enough cabs to go around.
And that not many cabbies working on NYE get scrod out of a tip.
I'm pretty sure they will
get scrod. They're going to have to choose between (a) arguing with drunk passengers that "free" doesn't mean "free" and (b) cleaning up the mess from that passenger because they really DID have to get out of the cab right that minute..
Is there nothing Wikipedia cannot make boring?
I Googled
and naturally the first entry is a Wikipedia definition, which soberly informs us that:
Oh, get scrod, Wikipedia, you and your too-tightly-wound editors.
Isn't "(noun) will get
Isn't "(noun) will get (verb)ed" just a simple future passive, not pluperfect? Just sayin'...
i feel lonely
am I the only one who learned this as past perfect tense?
I thought the sudden emergence of the Pluperfect word was some made up thing :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluperfect
Thats my biggest fear, I
Thats my biggest fear, I would rather pay and get service right now then get something free and have to fight for it
Im always annoyed when something I really like is on sale in the sales pages at my local grocery store because it means by the time I get there it will be gone and I will be without that product for the week. If I want a cab I want a cab, Ive been places where its impossible to get a cab and I just wanted to curl up in a ball and go to sleep. If Im taking a cab it means I am either thrashed, hot, cold, annoyed, just cant f'ing walk anymore or my car is in the shop. In all of those cases the last thing I want to do is play the lets find or hail a cab off the street game. I have a feeling between the busy nature of the night itself combined with these vouchers that it will be hard to find a cab.