Taking that in, and probably also my rather unusual attire, the driver began to chat with another taxi driver over the radio, contemptuously calling me a fag in the Shanghainese dialect.
The country that lectures the world has to hear out the world for a change, it said, whether it's the taxi driver in Nigeria giving a piece of his mind or the Italians calling the superpower a banana republic.
Steve McNamara of the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association also criticised the apparent bias against commercial vehicles, calling it a "policy of lunacy".