Taxi Driver Online

I had one on Friday night, "Take me to Blackstone Farm, please driver". No probs, so far, got a destination and a semi sober punter what can go wrong? You'll keep me right for directions, says I. "yeah, it's near Shieldhill" So off we go. He lives there, even better, can't get lost, can I? Only I passed the back road he usually took and I had to go about 1/2 mile detour to get back to it's road end. He got lost. I then had to direct him to where he knew and let him navigate from there. BTW it was at least 3 miles and a different direction from Shieldhill and about a mile closer to the pick up point.

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My heart is heavy, but my consience clear,
I voted Yes, without any fear.

When someone gives me a postcode i say give me street name not postcode (I am not a postie)

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He's the slave of all slaves who serves none but himself.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain

Alba Gu Bràth

Had an old lady discharged from a welsh hospital gave me an address, i eventually found it, knocked on the door.....


she had moved out 20 years before....

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Just had another one. She tells me the name of the village and says she knows the way from the post office. I take her to the post office and she says turn right, then it was turn right again, follow the road round and we stop at a house about 50 yards from the road i came in on. never mind.

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Grandad,

And once you arrive at the street name they give you and you ask which number they reply 'don't know, it's a friends house, but there should be a red car outside' - and half the street drives red cars

or they sit in the front directing you, and at 30mph they shout "TURN RIGHT NOW"

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Or you turn into the street, wait for them to tell you to stop and they say 'oh you've gone past it'.

Then there's the old which hotel is it - 'I don't know the name, but it has a green canopy'.

And am I the only one who's had a 'just drive' followed by 'you're going the wrong way' ? Or when they jump in and just say 'go'.

or when a woman lay down on the back seat and had me tour round looking to see where her husbands car was.....

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

I've had a couple of jobs where we visit several different addresses to see if the husbands car was parked outside, and one where we went to where the husband said he would be to make sure he was telling the truth.

I don't know why I care, but now I just have to know - was he where he was supposed to be?

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

He wasn't. So we went to one of his mates houses and the car was there, trouble was the wife knew his mate wasn't there and from her reaction I'm guessing his wife was !

OOps....