Taxing Taxi

I remembered some years ago there was an article in a men's magazine stating the top ten most annoying people in Singapore, and taxi drivers were one of them. Well, there is a group of people who believe that, while there is another group of people who, well, agree with the first group.

It's not that surprising to find the taxi drivers as the most annoying people here in Singapore, as pointed out by the magazine, which was a reliable source because it always gives what its readers want: women wearing bikini on its cover.

There are several things that annoy me about the cabs here. The main one is how they always ignore you when you flag them during raining rush hours. Really, the empty cab just drive pass you while giving snotty look that says something like, "Hey I have had 3 condos and 10 yachts and I am only driving this taxi to kill my time, so don't bother my driving and listening to this lousy radio tunes with your $15 fare ".
So we usually just end up standing there under the rain, waving out hands frantically like we have an itchy scorpion under our armpits, for about 30 minutes or so until we decide to either take the MRT or throw stones at the next empty taxi that ignores us.
I just cannot figure out why they do not want to take us. Should we wave things that they like, such as $100 bills or durians, to attract them to stop? Should we stand in the middle of the street so that the only way the taxi can ignore us is by killing us? Should we jump around naked so that the driver would notice us, and instead of taking a taxi, we would end up taking a police car instead? I really don’t know