How many women does it take to get a taxi?

A male friend yesterday posted his own version of the popular how many does it take joke.  This one was at the expense of me and a few of my friends, one of whom he's married to so he may regret it fairly soon. It went like this......

How many women does it take to notice a taxi driver in a cab? 

Answer: 4 inside and two outside! 

Except we didn't!!!

He also commented:  "BUT what I ask myself is? 6 grown women all very intellectual etc and not one of u didn't notice there was no driver? PMSL . What does that say for women ?"

So what had happened that amused Mark so much? 

I was out with a group of friends on Saturday night. We'd had a meal at a local Indian Restaurant and had stayed there having a few drinks till they hoovered around us as a hint for us to leave about 1am.  This is nothing unusual, we do it pretty much every time we go there. It's one of the main reasons we keep going back!  The food is lovely, they put up with our rowdiness and let us stay there all night drinking! In fact we usually drink them out of something!  

So about 1am there were just the diehard ones of us left, as always, and we asked them to call a taxi, G and I called for our lift and we got ready to leave.  We wandered out the front, and there parked at the side of the road was a black cab with his 'Taxi' light on.  We said our goodbyes, gave everyone hugs and the four ladies hopped into the back of the cab.  They told the driver where they wanted to go and sat back waiting for him to pull off.  When he didn't they started to give him directions, and got a bit irate when he ignored them!  J told him he was rude and in the end T tapped on the glass to get his attention. Meanwhile G and I were standing outside waiting oblivious to the fact that anything was wrong. 

The first clue we had was hearing shrieks of laughter, so loud we heard it through the closed taxi door!  We rushed over to see what was going on as the door opened and the 4 of them sat there unable to move they were laughing that hard, the drivers seat of the taxi was completely empty.  It turns out that the driver they were abusing for ignoring them wasn't actually there at all!  Not one of us had noticed as they climbed into the cab, and they hadn't even noticed as they had given the invisible driver his instructions.  But at least he wasn't being rude after all!

At just the right moment a taxi with a real driver pulled up and they sheepishly got out and transferred into this one.  This driver understood their instructions and pulled off immediately.  Moments later the invisible driver came out of the restaurant next door, got into his cab and drove off.  I do wonder if he had been watching these 4 crazy women through the window and decided he just couldn't face them, or whether he was oblivious to it all. but would have been disappointed to miss the fare had he known.  I guess we'll never know!

But imagine his reaction if he'd come out a few minutes earlier and found 4 hysterical women in the back of his driverless cab..........