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PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:20 am 
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Is it the time of year

this week seems to have brought out all the odd balls of society, could be the cold weather

I have had the worst week yet with nutters, half wits, drunks, you name it I have had them

some have now started to ask again "have you been busy" which raises the blood pressure, and even "wot time you finish", thought all this was history, I put on an act at time pretending I'm a bit deaf, can't hear properly, shouldn't be driving a taxi then mate was one reply, pardon I said didn't get that, got one using this method, he caught me out when he said round it up to a tenner mate, I heard him sharpish,got the 20 note gave him back a tenner, thought you was deaf mate he said but you heard right when I said take a tenner

got one bloke in trying to torment me to start a fight, wot at my age, another who insisted I was going the long way round [thats when I got him almost home] whats up with these people

finally tonight, some dressed up bird gets in the cab, slurrs an address, oh don't go yet waiting for my sister, there was a bloke carrying this other bird heading for my cab, I shot out the door sharply, Oi your not getting in here, the bloke said but we are solicitors, I said I don't give a stuff, I ain't carrying her she can't stand up

so I takes this lone person in a very quite atmosphere in the cab, you could slice the air with a knife, you could here a pin drop, so turned up radio talksport and took her home
she gave me a gob full at the end for not taking her sister but gave me a 30p tip

another bloke wanted dropping him off at a Chinese takeaway, he paid up the fare, then he said can you wait for us as your doing nothing else, we only live a couple of hundred yards up the road, be about 10 minutes, I shook my head and said goodnight, pratt

Isn't it any time now that the runners start performing

can't win em all


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When people start small talk with me I'm usually just grateful that they're talking to me. :lol:

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I would like to be a fly on the wall if el tell of the gmb ever became a driver , :shock: :shock: :shock: Just imagine being a punter with him driving, it would be world war 3 by about half a mile down the road :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


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It always amazes me when they treat you like a father confessor.
Some of the personal things i get told make my hair stand on end. :shock:


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smiffyz (geoff) wrote:
It always amazes me when they treat you like a father confessor.
Some of the personal things i get told make my hair stand on end. :shock:


Just at your hair :lol:

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Even more from China now

got 3 Chinese engineers going to hotel, as we set off I forgot to put me 20p extras on, so I did this further down the road
One of the Chinese pointed at the meter and said something in Chinese to his mates, re meter charge, something like 2 pounds already it seemed like

So I quickly had words to the only one who spoke broken English, so in my best chinese I asked

why e point at meter and talk

answer , he think velly expensive

so I told em, goverment rates, you no like, you no go

they said, ah so, velly solly, you dwive


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:10 pm 
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Stinky Pete wrote:
Even more from China now

got 3 Chinese engineers going to hotel, as we set off I forgot to put me 20p extras on, so I did this further down the road
One of the Chinese pointed at the meter and said something in Chinese to his mates, re meter charge, something like 2 pounds already it seemed like



they said, ah so, velly solly, you dwive


Perhaps this was a typing error but are you sure it didn't sound like R SOLE twying to ovacharge us :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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I usually get indian software engineers wanting me to move fyrniture about on a busy saturday morning :roll: trouble is it is very hard to get the concept of too busy across to them.

earlier this year i got caught out when i agreed to move a couple of items ( about a third of a mile down the road) an hour and a half later and 4 trips backwards and forwards we had completed an entire house move !! ](*,)


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:03 am 
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Had an African lady (possibly Nigerian) approach me on a rank about 3 months ago and ask if taxi drivers mind carrying bits of furniture, I replied there's usually not a problem as long as it would fit.

What is it I asked, well it's a bed and a few other small bits.

Double bed or single I say, double I think she says.

Well it might not fit then I say and the only way to find out would be for you to try or at least measure it.

Ok she says, can you come to my house and try, I say sure jump in.

No she says I'll meet you there in 10 mins.

I say so you expect me to pull off a rank and come to your house on the off chance of it fitting but without charging you.

Well yes she says, I don't want to pay for a taxi if it's no good.

Politely I replied in so many words, then on yer bike then.

What a f##king liberty!!!!

She tried about 6 more drivers on the rank until she got the message. :roll:


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