Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: john m on July 07, 2019, 10:46:40 am
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Found a purse in the car this morning I have an idea of who might own it its either one or the other ,I know where I dropped both of them but dont know the exact house .Should I go door to door looking for them ,there is absolutely no ID in the purse .
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Leave it in your glove box for a year and a day and if you don't come across the owners in the meantime then treat yourself. Don't give it to the Garda if there is no id, you would have a better chance of spotting them because you saw them, but to be sure ask them to describe it to be 100% sure, good luck.
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there is 50 quid in it both possible owners are pensioners and 50is a fair amount ,think ill try the knocker .
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Well done on your honesty,and best of luck tracing the owner
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Well done on your honesty,and best of luck tracing the owner
both possibilities are in Walkinstown one of them is another driver so Ill spin over .I try to return everything I find to its owner .They paid me to get them home that includes their property .I once returned a Mc Book had to drop it into the Carrage office got a reciept .That reciept has gotten me out of a few scrapes with the Gards .I keep it with my licence and hand it all over when asked for my licence ,they see the reciept and must think this fella is honest enough and give me the benifit .
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I just assumed it was 2 women,when ya said pensioners I dont know why
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I just assumed it was 2 women,when ya said pensioners I dont know why
I assumed it was two women when he said purse....although these days ye couldn't say anything!!
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Cud of bein worser
https://amp.independent.ie/world-news/europe/parents-forget-newborn-baby-in-taxi-on-way-home-from-hospital-38136621.html
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I just assumed it was 2 women,when ya said pensioners I dont know why
I assumed it was two women when he said purse....although these days ye couldn't say anything!!
Pensioner female taxi driver maybe, or even one of Leo’s lot.
Fair play trying to return it though
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its returned .
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its returned .
Get a tip? lol
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Cud of bein worser
https://amp.independent.ie/world-news/europe/parents-forget-newborn-baby-in-taxi-on-way-home-from-hospital-38136621.html
Can easily happen!
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its returned .
Get a tip? lol
No but I was told I was an Honest Man most drivers wouldnt return it .I told the old woman that was not true most drivers would return it if they had an idea who owned it .Im a lot of things but I am not a thief
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"Is this your purse with 50 euro in it?"
"Why, yes it is"
Did you have to go to the second house? Asking for a cynic lol
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Went to first house down the dip woman said it wasent hers but i didnt know where her mate lived as i just dropped he at the corner so we rang her and got no answer .i got a call back later and it was her purse .I found the second possible they were not home so I left a note .Anyhoo its returned 50 is a good lump if you only have a pension .
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Anyhoo its returned 50 is a good lump if you only have a pension .
Which you'll know about soon enough!!
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Went to first house down the dip woman said it wasent hers but i didnt know where her mate lived as i just dropped he at the corner so we rang her and got no answer .i got a call back later and it was her purse .I found the second possible they were not home so I left a note .Anyhoo its returned 50 is a good lump if you only have a pension .
Good man.
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Probably would have had 50 on the meter just returning it!!
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Good man John M ::cheers
I had a similar one the Christmas before last;
From: ken cashman [kencashman@hotmail.com]
Sent: 21 December 2017 07:55
To: Cork County Library
Subject: Lost property.
My name is Ken Cashman, I am a night time taxi driver, my Taxi badge number is Lxxxx.
Last night a customer of mine left his wallet in my cab, in the wallet there was a library card and also a HSE card which gave his age at 74.
His name was Dxxx Sxxx and I dropped him off in the Uam Var estate in Bishopstown, I think it was Uam Var Grove but I don't remember the exact location or house number.
I handed in his wallet to Anglesea street garda station as is protocol for taxi drivers to do, but Mr Sxxx may not know where to check if his belongings were handed in. If you have him on file then you might be so good as to ring him if ye have his phone number or send him a letter if not telling him where his wallet is.
Thank you, Ken Cashman.
From: Cork County Library <CountyHQ.Library@CorkCoCo.ie>
Sent: 21 December 2017 09:07
To: ken cashman
Subject: RE: Lost property.
Hi Ken,
Thanks for letting us know. I have called him but so far he's not picking up. I will keep trying though.
Enjoy your Christmas.
Máxxx.
Thank you Máxxx,
It was very late last night that I completed the fare (2am) so he might not be up yet.
There was also some cash in the wallet and I wouldn't like to see the man short during the festive season.
Thank you very much for your time,
Best wishes and a Merry Christmas to you too.
Ken Cashman.
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its returned .
Strangely enough there was exactly a Nifty note in the wallet I returned as well.
Do ya think the wallet/purse might be 'Chipped' and they are testing us ?
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Not a chance.how would you know the next cistomer in the car didnt find it and keep it
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its returned .
Strangely enough there was exactly a Nifty note in the wallet I returned as well.
Do ya think the wallet/purse might be 'Chipped' and they are testing us ?
Or a Jeremy Beadle jumpin out of a bin and catchin ye red handed!!
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The bit I dislike is when you return money and the person counts it .Two different events I picked up 950 in 50s at Heuston and ran up the platform after the fella who dropped it ,he counted it and then said thanks ,did he think I might take some and not the lot .But the worst was I was an apprentice and working in the workshop when I smelt smoke .A house beside the job was on fire I knocked on the door got no answer so was just about to break the window when the Old Cunt that lived there opened the door he had fallen asleep drunk smoking and set fire to his bed .I put out the fire and that night his son called into my boss and asked for my address as his old man could not find his pension book .My boss man told him to go fuck himself .I should of let the old bollox burn to death .
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I found a wallet in the car once.I drove out to kiltipper to return it. The prick didnt even have the courtesy to come down the stairs to say thanks,he sent his mate down instead.it would really put off giving anything back
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I found a wallet in the car once.I drove out to kiltipper to return it. The prick didnt even have the courtesy to come down the stairs to say thanks,he sent his mate down instead.it would really put off giving anything back
You're not wrong Dalyer....returned a decent phone to an oul wan on Dromawling Rd in Beaumont a good while back....sent her barely walking rugrat to open the door to take it off me.....in hindsight!!!
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Dropped a phone into a gaf by arrangement where I had earlier picked up an Aer Lingus Air Hostess.I only noticed the phone a few hours later.Never even got a thank you text (She had my number) ::fds
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But we're a shower of cunts by all accounts!!
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I think its fair to say that a lot of punters look down their noses at taxi drivers.some of them dont even think we are worthy of their time.we dont help ourselves either thoughway.I have seen posters on here let the side down by making comments like thats why we're taxi drivers and similar comments.infact there are drivers on here who could converse with the best of these cunts.people like the erm,the rat,belker,etc etc could hold their own in any company,and be more articulate then most of them.there are many many more posters on here who are equally well versed I just cannot think of all the names now.dont think less of yourselves lads,your all better then most of them.not only that,but you are all genuine people as well
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Thanks DM, I fer one will take the compliment. ::cheers
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Thanks DM, I fer one will take the compliment. ::cheers
And no better sham!!
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Most of us are dysfunctional at best.
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They look down their nose at us while they rot away in call centres.
Soon they'll be done away with by a FAQ section on a website, given statutory redundancy wondering where it all went wrong.
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Particularly D4 students who think we are the scum of the earth.they are fukking glad of us. on a busy saturday night. I hate when the lazy cunts stand on the wrong side of the road on camden st,and then say rathmines.you have to try doing a u turn.youd walk the fukkin thing in less then 10 mins
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I think I got my best ever sober compliment from a lady last night on a MyTaxi job, she was coming off the Aer coach just after midnight and after her destination and pleasantaries were all exchanged, she said to me; "Isin't it great to see the new footbridge open ?".
To which I reply; "Hmm.. I'm not so sure that at 4.5 Million Euro and situated 50 meters from another bridge on either side that it was actually needed but at least it got a lovely name".
Her; "What's it called ?",
Me; "Mary Elmes bridge",
Her; "Who is Mary Elmes ?"
Fortunately or unfortunately she had got me on my pet subject, fer a massively shortened Forum version Mary Elmes was a Cork woman who as an ambulance worker had managed to smuggle over 400 Jewish children out of various nazi concentration camps during the Second world war and after the war she refused point blank to take any credit or acclaim fer what she had done, it was only after she died about 15 years ago that her story began to be told.
Fer me Mary Elmes is my Heroine of all Heroine's and my lady/customer got it all chapter and verse along her 15 minute route home asking fer more details frequently, when we got to her home (account job) I apologized fer boring the life outta her along the way, she sez to me; "That was the most intriguing and interesting Taxi journey that I have ever taken in my life, I'm going in now to check out Mary Elmes and her book (biography) that you mentioned, Thank you so much fer sharing your knowledge with me !".
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We have a bridge in Dublin that was opened about 2 years ago called after a lady named Rosie Hackett.she was a biscuit factory who done a lot of good in 1913 during the lockout,and again in 1916. just like your lady in cork,Rosie did not want to be acknowledged for what she did.they called the new LUAS bridge after her
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There were some proper tough women back in those days.
Fer anyone interested Mary Elmes was born in Cork to a rich pharmacist's family, his premises was Number 4 Winthrop street which was later burnt out by the black 'n tans, today McDonalds hold the lease.
Mary's first experience of tragedy as a child was when she accompanied her father to Cobh harbour to render assistance to those who had been rescued off or from the water after the Lusitania cruise ship had been torpedoed by a German Submarine. A moment she later recounted as being a Turning point in her life.
Mary had a good education both in Trinity and abroad and her academic prospects seemed very well fer her but she turned her back on her chosen profession to join the ambulance brigade during the Spanish Civil war. Her mission was to save the children and she did a very fine and difficult job of that, unbeknowst to herself at the time she was setting up schools and 'Safe houses' fer the children of that war and not knowing that in the future she would again need them same 'Safe houses'.
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When the Spanish civil war ended the Second World War started and Mary held her place as an Ambulance worker in nazi occupied France managing over the war years to smuggle over 400 Jewish children out of nazi concentration camps in the boot of her car and place them in the schools and Safe houses that she had established in France and Spain during the previous years.
Eventually the nazis did catch up with her and she spent 6 months in one of France's most notorious prisons, on release she quoted to the press; "Sur' every path has a Bump in it", before continuing her quest to free more children again using her Ambulance cover.
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After the war was over Mary married a French-man and had Two kids and resided in France.
She refused all credit or acclaim fer her outstanding brave work, in the one rare interview that she gave she said that; "She had some very hard choices to make", so you can quess fer yourselves what Choices they were ?
Fer example and I'm guessing here; If ya see a kid in a concentration camp with a dodgy leg, do ya bring him/her knowing that they have a 20km hike over the mountains to their 'Safe house' or do you leave them behind to face the gas chamber and save the others ?
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Mary Elmes died about 15 years ago, only then did one of those she rescued come forward because they had all been sworn to secrecy.
The man who came forward was now a professor and with his testimony Mary Elmes from Cork was awarded the highest civilian honour that France could give and many other accolades have followed gratefully accepted by her children.
Clodagh Finn formerly a journalist with the Cork Examiner followed up on the story and researched her in detail, of course all the survivors that Mary has risked her life to rescue were only too delighted to now be telling her story and singing her praises and her biography called "A Time to Risk All" is available on Amazon fer about 18 Euro.