A FAMILY has been left terrified after a taxi driver joined in their conversation, revealing that he had been listening all along.
Mother Joanna Kramer thought that, although he could technically hear, taxi drivers were bound by a code of honour based around switching their ears off to passenger conversation.
Kramer said: “I honestly thought he stopped listening as soon as we gave him the location, with all our other speech just degenerating into white noise unless we issued any further directions. Like our Alexa.
“Imagine my horror when I mentioned the local Co-op being renovated and he suddenly started talking about what he’d read in the paper. Joining in! As though he’s part of the family!
“I was as astonished as a duchess whose gamekeeper had put his muddy boots up on the dining table and started discussing Sheffield Wednesday! Is he expecting to come home with us and help himself to some hot buttered toast and me sexually as well?
“I’m now mentally replaying all the things I said about Clara struggling with her clarinet lessons in case he turns it into vicious gossip and spreads it around the town. I still can’t believe how boldly he replied. Out loud. Using words. Driverless vehicles can’t come soon enough.”
Taxi driver Steve Malley said: “I was hoping we’d get onto the affair her husband was discussing last Thursday, but I couldn’t stop her droning on about the Co-op. She’s pretty boring.”
