SIR – Phil Lightbody’s letter about the inflated price of postage stamps (T&A, April 9) reminds me of a similar attempted price-hike that happened to me some months ago.
On completion of a journey by taxi from Keighley to Harden, I asked the driver the usual question: “How much do I owe you?” He shrugged his shoulders and, to my amazement, said: “I don’t know. What do you want to pay?”
Now I can understand someone from Lancashire falling for it, but what a question to ask a Yorkshireman, especially one who’d once taken a crash course in bartering in Dewsbury Market.
Quick as a flash – and only because I was feeling in a very generous mood that morning – I proffered a £2 coin and told him he could keep the change.
Surprise, surprise, he did know the correct fare after all.
David Oyston, Rylands Avenue, Bingley
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