Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: john m on December 20, 2017, 06:24:58 pm
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Im third car on the Burlo last Friday Drunk pisses in the bushes then gets into my car I remove him he is absolutely pissed and direct him to the first car .They dont want him so he walks off .Next passenger in picks up a mobile phone and hands it to me .Later the phone rings I answer and its one of yer mans mates I tell them Im a taxi driver and I have his mates phone .He asks is there any chance of getting it for him off me .I ask where are you he is in Renalagh Im in Dundrum so I give him my number as the other phone might go dead and I arrange to get it to him .I return it and he drops me a tenner .Today I get a phone call from the phone owner who apologizes for being drunk in my car thanks me for returning his phone and offers me a nice Christmas box I told him to donate it to some homeless charity .
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What a lovely story. Did you use reasonable force to remove him?
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it never ceases to amaze me how cunts allow themselves to get in to such a state.
Do they not wake up the next morning who was i with? where was I?, what did I do? ,how did I get home?
absolutely bizarre.
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Is this another of your made up stories that you are so fond of making up?
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What a lovely story. Did you use reasonable force to remove him?
Meowww!
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Is this another of your made up stories that you are so fond of making up?
Which is more far fetched:
the erm hauling himself out of the car to remove a passenger
being number 3 on the Burlington on the busiest Friday of the year
the erm working of a Friday
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Is this another of your made up stories that you are so fond of making up?
Which is more far fetched:
the erm hauling himself out of the car to remove a passenger
being number 3 on the Burlington on the busiest Friday of the year
the erm working of a Friday
I jumped on the Burlo as there were only two cars on .Get your point about working Friday but its one of me 3 day week .
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Is this another of your made up stories that you are so fond of making up?
Which is more far fetched:
the erm hauling himself out of the car to remove a passenger
being number 3 on the Burlington on the busiest Friday of the year
the erm working of a Friday
Is the answer,
ALL OF THE ABOVE
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No fear of ye lettin go of that trumpet John.
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do ye remember the aulone about a year ago that rang up Joe Duffy.
She said she left some shopping in a taxi driver's boot and that she reckoned he deliberately drove off with them after she got out. She was only up in dublin for a few days or something. Instead of darting the stuff in finglas lost and found, the taxi driver heard the appeal and drove down the bog free of charge and returned her toblerones and bandages - after being accused of deliberately trying to knock them off. Arguably one of the most cringeworthy "Joe, ..." moments in recent memory.
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Made a funny error myself a couple of months ago, a first after 24 years. I was hailo'd by a gentleman on Shanard Road who was waiting on the street corner when I arrived. He had a couple of bags and a stick with him so asks will he put them in the boot or on the back seat. I told him either would do so he opted for the back seat and told me he was going to Shanowen Square. The door bangs behind me and I proceeded to Shanowen square and say 6 euros please sir... no response so I look around and he isn't in the car! I drive back around the corner and find him on the phone to the Gardai. Quite irate, he asks why did you drive off on me so I explain that I thought he'd got in behind me. So in he gets and explains that he hadn't a clue where he was and all his prized possessions including a playstation and such like were in his bags as he was only moving in to Shanowen Square. Once he realised it was a genuine mistake we had a laugh about it and he apologised for calling the Gardai on me... I let him off the €6 but he insisted on paying and left it on the dash.
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Made a funny error myself a couple of months ago, a first after 24 years. I was hailo'd by a gentleman on Shanard Road who was waiting on the street corner when I arrived. He had a couple of bags and a stick with him so asks will he put them in the boot or on the back seat. I told him either would do so he opted for the back seat and told me he was going to Shanowen Square. The door bangs behind me and I proceeded to Shanowen square and say 6 euros please sir... no response so I look around and he isn't in the car! I drive back around the corner and find him on the phone to the Gardai. Quite irate, he asks why did you drive off on me so I explain that I thought he'd got in behind me. So in he gets and explains that he hadn't a clue where he was and all his prized possessions including a playstation and such like were in his bags as he was only moving in to Shanowen Square. Once he realised it was a genuine mistake we had a laugh about it and he apologised for calling the Gardai on me... I let him off the €6 but he insisted on paying and left it on the dash.
The difference between a Taxi man and a taxi driver...you knew he would decline the waiver of your fee...business is business.
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Indeed. Similar methodology applies when the fare is 5.20 5.40 5.60 or 10.20 10.40 10.60... as they pull the coins out of their phone/purse you say ah 5 (or 10) will do you... so you get the 6 or 10/12. As Tesco say, every little helps!
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Indeed. Similar methodology applies when the fare is 5.20 5.40 5.60 or 10.20 10.40 10.60... as they pull the coins out of their phone/purse you say ah 5 (or 10) will do you... so you get the 6 or 10/12. As Tesco say, every little helps!
Ye round it down
So they round it up
Works most time
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Indeed. Similar methodology applies when the fare is 5.20 5.40 5.60 or 10.20 10.40 10.60... as they pull the coins out of their phone/purse you say ah 5 (or 10) will do you... so you get the 6 or 10/12. As Tesco say, every little helps!
Ye round it down
So they round it up
Works most time
Works a treat about 90% of the time in the night time game !
"Yarra shur what ever ya have handy" Or "One sec, I'll get ya a few coins change"
which is in a coin bag far, far away and well out of sight, works well fer me.
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Some Decent people.
I don't reckon that I qualify, but this might help;
Last Thursday night my First fare on the Graveyard shift was at 2am, it was a strange fare from a very elderly man at 2am in the morning from the city center (on a Student night) out to Bishopstown, he was a pleasant sober man and we chatted, he paid his fare in full and we parted our ways.
About Two hours later while ranked up and giving the Cab a 'Once-over' I noticed a wallet on the floor, inside the wallet there was a Fifty Euro note, a HSE medical card and a Cork city library card. I returned the lost wallet not knowing whom it had belonged to in to Anglesea street Garda station as is protocol fer taxi drivers to do.
I told the Guard in the station that I had no idea of whom or when the wallet was dropped. The Guard pulled out his HSE medical card and said to me; "The man was born in 1943, that would make him 74 today, any ideas ?"
I said; "Yes, I know the exact man, I dropped him in Bishopstown about Two hours ago".
Not meaning to disrespect the Gardai, but I'm not so sure of how rigorously they check up on 'Lost property', maybe they do check out all lost property cases or maybe they just throw it in a box and wait for it to be claimed.
Is'n'anyways, I emailed Cork city library with my tale the same morning telling them the mans name and approximate address and asking them to ring him to tell him where his wallet could be found. A lady from the library emailed me back telling me that he was not picking up her phone call at 9am. I replied to her; "He was up till 2am, most unlikely he will will be up now !"
She replied (Direct Quote); "You're very good-others would pocket it."