Taxi Cab Confessions...Part XIV |
Have you ever felt like you were going nuts? By "nuts" I mean that you're completely losing all of your marbles. You know, "goin' cuckoo"? I have. If you spent 12-14 hours a day, sitting in a small, m...
Posted by on Mon, 24 May 2010 09:48:00 GMT |
Taxi Cab Confessions...Part XIII |
They come and they go. Fares (customers, people, whatever), that is. One minute they're in your backseat, talking you up and telling their life story. The next minute they're walking away and leaving ...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:35:00 GMT |
Live-N-Local! |
Voicetracking. I'm not good at it. At least, that is the way that I feel when I'm doing it. For me, it's akin to learning Chinese while visiting Beijing...for the first time. Everyone is talking too f...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:30:00 GMT |
Taxi Cab Confessions...Part XII |
When I was a kid, my parents took me up to Bremerton, Washington to visit the U.S.S. Missouri. Before it was moved to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the grand battleship resided in a shallow inlet of Puget S...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:32:00 GMT |
Taxi Cab Confessions...Part XI |
Waiting. It is not one of my virtues. I'm an incredibly impatient human. Unfortunately, a large part of being a taxi "driver" is not driving. It's waiting. Waiting for calls, fares and the apocalypse....
Posted by on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:23:00 GMT |
Taxi Cab Confessions...Part X |
I've learned the hard way that the "right of way" is a relative term. Relative to WHAT, you ask? Relative to whether (or not) a taxi cab is on the road. Mind you-this is not in the sense that the cab ...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:31:00 GMT |
Def Leppard/Poison 2009!! |
Phil Collen is 52 years old. I had to look it up. I KNEW that he had to be (somewhere) around 50. But, 52?? My point is not what age the lead guitarist of Def Leppard is. Rather, my point is that he's...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:45:00 GMT |
Ulysses-Alfred Tennyson |
Senator Edward Moore Kennedy.....Rest In Peace.Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson:It little profits that an idle king,By this still hearth, among these barren crags,Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and doleU...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:45:00 GMT |
Taxi Cab Confessions...Part IX |
It's always fun to work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. These are the shifts where you are more than likely going to pick up those people who are trying to find their way home after a night of partyi...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:44:00 GMT |
Goin' To The Fair |
It's something that I missed over the two summers that I spent in Las Vegas: Going to the fair. As you've probably heard-the summer in Vegas is hot. Really hot. Then again, Sin City IS situated right-...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:36:00 GMT |
