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Post by Master Shake on Nov 6, 2007 16:12:37 GMT
;D
Funny!
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Post by Stan Butler on Nov 9, 2007 1:38:50 GMT
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Post by Stan Butler on Dec 27, 2007 15:01:28 GMT
I don't normally work around Christmas time, but since I've got my own taxi on the road, it's a matter of having to do a little bit to pay a few bills.... Anyway, I worked last night (Boxing Day). Wigan is now well known for it's obsession with fancy dress. There were literally thousands of people round town last night in various costumes. One of my pick ups last night was a Christmas tree, complete with decorations! The bloke wearing it had also his face painted green, which he was worried the stuff wouldn't come off. I suggested he tried swarfega or human sh*t! (Yes, a quote from Phoenix Nights I couldn't resist!) On the way into town, the christms tree bloke had to stop off at a cash machine. He had trouble getting out the car. His girlfriend asked if he was OK. I told her he'd just trapped his balls in the door that's all! He was also with a mate, who at first I thought was our very own Santa Shake...  The whole thing of driving round seeing various characters was bizarre! Especially when dropping folk off in quiet housing estates, and suddenly Captain America stumbles past, or seeing Abraham Lincoln having a p*ss against a wall.... The funniest thing I saw last night though was a woman dressed in a Minnie Mouse outfit having a drunken argument with Bugs Bunny! ;D |
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Post by The Collector on Dec 27, 2007 22:04:26 GMT
Who Need Drugs when you've got A night like that!
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Post by Stan Butler on Apr 20, 2008 13:08:30 GMT
The taxi company I work for are now doing a bit of promotional stuff. They are giving out free gifts to the passengers. These include key rings, pens and.......... condoms! "Get home safe with Bluestar" is the tagline!  |
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Post by Stan Butler on Apr 20, 2008 13:20:03 GMT
NICE PEOPLEThings have been quite tame at work lately... Until last night.... I picked up some very very dodgy blokes. Now I know of one of them and know his history of crime and prison sentences, so straight away I was very uncomfortable. I took them a couple of miles away to a certain pub. They went in the place. After a couple of minutes another bloke was dragged out of the pub and had the living crap beaten out if him by my passengers. I then had to take these shit heads back where they came from, who did nothing but laugh about what they had done. Discussing how the bloke's nose sounded as they had broken it. I'm not sure what all of that was about, but I felt it was best not to try and find out. I just got those b*stards back and luckily I even got paid for the run (which I didn't really expect) Later that night I got landed with a drunken gypsy bloke and his wife who decided to have an argument with each other in my car. They were hitting and slapping one another all they way. Eventually I got them to the caravan site in which they lived and the bloke gypsy tried to pay me in euros. When I pointed out I need some of the Queen's English currency, he got very annoyed and called me all the names under the sun. Eventually, I did manage to get paid in English by who I think was one of his gypsy daughters. They joys of it all(!) 
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Post by The Collector on Apr 20, 2008 15:05:52 GMT
Fun, fun, fun all the way at Maplins!
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Post by Reneekittycat on Apr 20, 2008 18:16:24 GMT
Wow, I just could never be a cabbie, that's too dangerous a job. You could always move to the US, we could use some English speaking cabbies in the big cities, like New York. LOL!
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Apr 20, 2008 22:24:35 GMT
Ruddy hell, sounds like you were lucky there! Feckin' Gyppos - here, they've got their own shampoo brand - called "Go N' Wash". Seriously though, glad yer alreet after all that!  N. |
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Post by DaleJr Fan on Apr 21, 2008 4:07:27 GMT
I would not be able to handle that. Glad you were safe.
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Post by Reneekittycat on Apr 21, 2008 5:48:51 GMT
We don't have Gypsies in this country. At least not in Minnesota, maybe way out in California. What are they exactly? Are they an ethnic group or religion? Where do they come from? I don't mean to sound ignorant I've just never met any Gypsies.
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Post by Stan Butler on Apr 21, 2008 13:43:58 GMT
We don't have Gypsies in this country. At least not in Minnesota, maybe way out in California. What are they exactly? Are they an ethnic group or religion? Where do they come from? I don't mean to sound ignorant I've just never met any Gypsies. Gypsies are also known as 'travellers'. They live in caravans trailers in U.S.), normally parking up on any spare land they can find where they live until moved on by the authorities.They have Irish routes, but they have a very distinguished accent! Most of them run non-existent tarmaccing companies, in which they con people out of a deposit for work that never gets done. Most of them aren't very nice at all but you might find the odd one who is. I have still yet to meet that particular one though! As to my taxi job, it's not always that bad. If it were, I would have pcked it in a long time ago. There are also some nice people out there too. It's the nasty ones that stand out and make the job sound much worse than it is. |
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Post by Reneekittycat on Apr 25, 2008 3:12:26 GMT
Ok, now I know what Gypsies are I know we haven't got any here. We have migrant workers that go from place to place and live in small commune like huts, but they never get paid before doing the work and they get paid very little. Most of them come from Mexico and their actual legal status is quite shaky, but there are lots of places willing to take the risk in hiring them.
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Post by Stan Butler on May 9, 2008 15:45:05 GMT
We had a nice hot day here a couple of days ago. My car was very hot, so I thought it would be a good idea to open up my sunroof, so that it would cool down a bit for when I was ready to go to work. The only thing wrong in that plan, was a nearby blossom tree, which blew off hundreds of petals into my car, which more or less covered my seats. So I then had to spend half an hour hoovering the bloody thing out. I only did it last week n'all!  |
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on May 10, 2008 13:06:18 GMT
Ye daft beggar! Same where I worked... a lot of 'sticky buds' on a tree... they'd drip all over the car roof and make a hell of a mess - that's how I found out that the 'best' parking space was never used! N. |
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