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I've been driving cab off and on for a decade now and this question, which may have already been answered and I'm sorry if it has, has been on my mind since I started.What's with the no windows? Every weekend I haul around sweet old folks to their various services and functions and the only one of the many houses of worship I visit every weekend that creeps me the gently caress out are JW meeting houses and it's the no windows thing. Also they even get super pissy if I help my passenger to the door because she's like a billion years old and can barely move. Often times I expect that if I turned around fast enough I'd find one of the dudes at the door spraying the walkway down with some sort of anti-heathen spray or something. I get JWs at my house all the time and they're nice then but by god I roll up in my cab and you'd think I was the Satan coming in for a visit. Oh and the young ones tip like poo poo if they tip which I don't expect but if you're going to do it, do it well. The elderly JWs are the best tippers and the nicest fares.
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Darth Brooks posted:The common sense answer is the right one, it was cheaper to build without windows. Construction costs, heat loss, etc. They've made a change for the most part in new KH's. A few years ago we built a new one and it has windows. One window was busted by a mower and a couple of crows decided they liked looking at their reflection in the front door. That would have been OK but they left remnants of their meals across the entrance while admiring themselves. I got some frosted material from work and put it across the bottom. Then they got up on the handle for the same show. When winter came they left and didn't come back. No windows makes sense in that context. Still something about it creeps me out, could be the buildings in this area too though. They're those inexpensive sheet steel buildings that they slapped nice siding on and it just gives the place a CIA black site sort of feel or like they're doing things in there that they don't want God to see or something. The worst one is the one we drivers call Headquarters. It has the typical we build this in a day sort of look to most of the building but instead of the plain, normal looking entryway this place has a covered entrance with a carpeted walkway to the door and the roof of the walkway is held up by four doric columns. The place surrounded by a steel fence and has a wrought iron style gate that's never closed. In addition to those features and the no windows this particular place is roughly three times the other ones. The others look like they're about the size of a triple wide trailer, actually they kind of look like triple wide trailers with no windows and cheap siding, but Headquarters looks like the JW equivalent of the Pentagon in comparison. All the drivers, including the two we have that hate Jehovah's Witnesses, know that there's nothing actually sinister going on in there but when you spend most of your days having five or ten minute conversations with people your brain goes to strange places.Ever see the movie Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson's nutball intro monologue? I work with three of those guys. As for the poor/no tipping it's just part of the gig. I don't depend on them or anything. I'll stop by derail now since my question has been answered. Edit: The only thing that annoys me with these folks is the dirty looks I get when I escort an elderly fare to the door. My cab's a bright yellow van with a huge taxi light on it so it isn't like I can sneak up on them or anything, they could easily get someone out there to help my fare if they don't want me to do it unless there's some rule against going in and out of the building that I'm unaware of. If they don't want me getting near their door they could come help the elderly fare but in ten years that has never happened and I always get this nasty look from however many people are gathered around the door. That's the only time Witnesses bother me, when they give me grief for being polite and helpful to one of their own. Jeremy_X fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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