(CNN) -- Who hasn't left a strange airport wondering not just whether you should be in this taxi but whether it even is one -- only to be charmed, amused or unexpectedly edified by the person behind the wheel. Or, it's true, bored to death, humiliated or even ripped off. Now an online booking service called Airporttransfers has released a survey of 2,162 recent British vacationers, asking them to name the meanest, nastiest, take-the-longest-route-and-still-expect-a-tip taxi drivers on the planet. Travel shocker! British tourists consider French cabbies rude And get outta ze cab! It's the French. But -- and here we perform some fabulously expressive gesticulation whose meaning is "leave my hired vehicle immediately" -- it's also the Italians.
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Study names French world's rudest taxi drivers
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All study survey subjects were British
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New York cabbies are entertaining storytellers
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A London black cab driver tells all
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