Thursday, February 5, 2009

Last night rocked

Wow, I really have to work more nights. I just have to set off a couple per week - maybe a Tues, Wed, and Friday or something - and that will cover the other days when I work fewer hours. Last night I had calls pretty much straight from 4 pm until midnight, except for a couple breaks (thanks for dinner, Mom, and terrific shuffleboard playing (shuffling? shuffleboarding?), Brittany). And this morning went fairly well, I only worked from 6-9, but I got a couple airport trips and a couple DC trips in, so it was pretty good.

Last night I had a couple firsts - my first really cute girl, who I let smoke in my cab. I'm pretty sure that I am not allowed to smoke, but also pretty sure the law allows passengers to smoke if I'm ok with it. And there was no way I was gonna look like a square! I also had the most aggressive questioning of why I'm driving a cab, too. A young Somalian woman got in and said, "You're young, white, American - what the hell are you doing driving a cab?" She also called me handsome, but it was dark. I don't think my answer satisfied her, but we had a nice chat anyway.
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6 comments:

  1. Rob KingFebruary 5, 2009 at 12:15 PM

    We see how the batting of a cute girl’s eye throws all your principles right out the window. Hope some second hand smoke doesn't turn in to lung cancer!!
    I feel your current position is much like how a white, non-European guy feels like on an NBS squad…you are just the token white guy that everyone just humors.

    BTW…Creamed Egg on Toast…(and if you don’t know, you are missing out…yum).

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  2. Rob KingFebruary 5, 2009 at 12:17 PM

    Meant to say NBA Squad...sorry, Goldie

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  3. DJKFebruary 5, 2009 at 2:07 PM

    At first i thought that I too would be very confused and aggressive in my questioning of you if you were my cab driver, but then i realized how your last movie tanked in box office sales.

    http://cache.reelzchannel.com/assets/content/article/mall_cop_segway.jpg

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  4. KnollskiFebruary 5, 2009 at 5:24 PM

    You should add some sort of earnings ticker/ daily earnings ticker to the blog, so we can judge for ourseves whether you are a good cab driver or a poor one.

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  5. ReidFebruary 6, 2009 at 2:12 AM

    and don't fudge it/completely abandon it when you're down like on dickie's betting blog.

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  6. UnknownFebruary 6, 2009 at 11:35 AM

    did you tell her you were using this job to parlay it into a position at Popeye's?

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