We’re all guilty of using these from time to time.
The majority of Irish people love talking and find silence awkward, foreign and unnecessary.
That’s why we’ll resort to any sort of conversation to fill in the gaps, and the worst example is when we get a taxi.
Every taxi driver in Ireland must have the patience of a saint because they have to listen to the same pointless conversation over and over again.
Ian Geraghty has put together this 21 second video to neatly sum it all up, he gets it spot on.
Post by Ian Geraghty.
How many of those did you use the last time you got a taxi? All of them? Us too.
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