and then Stephen Hawking's girlfriend said I owed her five bucks

I love taxis here. Like everything else they are surprisingly high-tech.
I discovered today, that if the driver doesn't feel like telling you how much to pay (and you are somehow unable to read the meter) he just hits a button and a female synthesized voice bleeps out "please pay five dollars, have a nice day". It feels like I've just been hit up for money by Stephen Hawkings girlfriend....