In Bangkok on a highway this taxi driver was flooring it. I said "that was our exit" as we sped by. He slammed on the brakes and reversed. On a friggin highway! My husbands fingernail marks are still in his dashboard, I just wanted a clean pair of undies.

In a previous decade we visited Egypt. We were confused by the height of the kerbs - seriously, they were knee high on me and I'm not tall! Then we saw that Every. Single. Car. regardless of age or make, had a noticeable ding, dent or scratch. Was finally confirmed when a taxi driver, clapping his hands in time to the music blaring from the radio instead of keeping them on the steering wheel, that the kerb height is to keep cars on the road instead of killing pedestrians. Four *painted* lanes of traffic, six *car formed* lanes of traffic. Oh, and on the coach back from an excursion we were cut up by a man on a bike with about twenty loaves of bread on a plank of wood on his head. (This was also the holiday where our hotel's breakfast box included a whole raw, unwashed courgette - it was a WILD five days!)

Not a taxi but a bus: I was in Hong Kong with my daughter (she was 5 yo back then). We took a bus to get back to downtown from where we were. It was already dark and the bus had to drive through cliffs. We were the only people on the bus when we got on. I wanted my daughter to enjoy the view so we sat upstairs by the front window. My daughter asked me if we should fasten our seatbelts. To lead by example I said "of course! We always do". Then the bus started. Omfg... I kid you not, this cantonese driver was driving like a maniac through those curves by the edge of the cliffs. We were being swung right and left violentlty. Thanks god we had seatbelts on! As I held my daughter tight, I prayed to whatever out there to help us survive. We made it. When we got off, my excited daughter said this was the best rollercoaster ever and that we should take this "bus loco" again... 🤣🤣🤣 . She is 11 and still remembers the "bus loco". Still claims this was her best memory of Hong Kong.

Ngl I want to get in a Russian taxi. Sounds fun

A taxi driver asked me to help him steal some bricks from a construction site. He was building his house and needed a few.

India. It made Fast & Furious look like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

In Pusan, the 3 of us wanted to get to this meeting. We were running a bit late. Our Korean driver assigned to us spoke good English and we told him we gotta be at another meeting inside the Army. base. Off we go and then red light ergo cannnot make a left. No problem - we hard right turn, makes a u-turn and off we go! The Military Police at the gate of the army base looked at our ID's and asked if we needed puke bags !

Oh, there ain’t nothing on the roads today who could match an NYC cabbie in the 70’s and 80’s!

Not a taxi, but we in Slovenia we would go white-water kayaking. and one of us would drive the bus to the end point and hitch-hike back. Most cars would stop and bring you upriver to the starting point through, obviously, a canyon and bendy roads. One day a pickup skidded to a halt in front of me and took me on board, free falling down descents, skidding trough hairpin bends, hammering up hills and around corners with no visibility. I was just holding on for dear life, on very slightly comforted by the thought this guy probable raced this part of the road on a daily basis, until he turned to me and said 'you need to tell me where exactly you need me to stop, I've never been here before'. The rest of the day we kayaked some of the most ridiculously b*dass falls and rapids, and I was praised for my lack of fear when going down them. I'd run out for that day (Bored Panda: well done for add an edit function, but it needs some work on photos :-) ) DSC_3777-6...7eda5a.jpg

A friend was in Bangkok and took a tuktuk (three wheel taxi) back to the hotel in the early morning. There was no traffic so he asked the driver if he could drive and they guy said yes. He took a turn too sharply and the tuktuk fell over. No one was hurt and I guess the machine was ok. I think tuktuk driver drove the rest of the way after that.

Never been there, but I'm seeing a pattern in Russia.

i love that most of these are Russian