Change of Direction for the Taxi Blog

Whilst I was out working tonight I had a bit of a think about the Blog and I came to the decision that from now I would punctuate the factual information with a bit of commentary about my working life, the reason for this is that I hope to add a bit more dimension to this guide and give you a better idea of the working life of a taxi driver, if it doesn't work out I will just delete the posts and go back to the facts and you can call me a cock.

Friday the 13th 2:40 am, I’m just in from work. Lazy bugger that I am; I wanted to work until 3 but I made my money early so I chose to get an early dart... After all, I’m worth it :)
Bit of a funny night, really enjoyed most of it, I had loads of great customers - the best was a group of pissed young girls and the one in the front insisted on doing all of the gear changes for me. I was just shouting out the gears and she was selecting them. It was like having an automatic for a while; I even gave her a discount for doing some of the work! As the night wore on I ended up working in one of the more rough neighbourhoods because that's where the work was. I didn't have any trouble at all; everyone was a good laugh but I had one scum bag that left me feeling angry. After telling me his wife stabbed him on Valentine’s Day I was giggling to myself for a while but he then started bragging about a recent compensation claim he had won for £325,000... He was not lying either because he was telling me the daily/monthly interest he was making and it all added up. The thing that really got up my nose was that he had faked the claim, and the nature of the claim was that he had been abused as a child. I know some people lay it on thick with whiplash claims but this is in a league of its own and quite sickening.
But you know what? …I’m not going to let him bring me down. This night was so typical; it again proved to me that 99% of people are decent folk. People all too often focus on the negative in life and they lose sight of the reality that most people are ok.
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