I love reading those ridiculous “Riders’ Bill of Rights” things posted in taxicabs throughout the country. You know the ones I mean: “You Have the Right To: A clean cab, a driver who speaks English and knows the location of major destinations in the city, a smoke-free environment, etc. etc. etc.” [Someone should do a little comparative law study of riders’ “rights” in different cities]. Why there’s value in framing these as “rights” (as opposed to just saying something like “Drivers must speak English” has always escaped me).
But today in Philadelphia I noticed that we’ve reached a new rights frontier. One of my rights as a cab rider is the right to have the driver “provide a reasonable amount of change.” !! A reasonable amount of change? Not the exact change? Doesn’t seem like much of a right, to me.
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