Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: U Wha on March 29, 2018, 01:48:59 am
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Just wondering will everyone hit the pubs seeing that they are open for the first time this year or will it be a damp squib?
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should be a cracker.
y'know the irish. any excuse for a piss up.
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It's a hard one to call, I really have no idea of which it will be.
I'v talked to a few bar staff in the cab about it and there only guessing too.
I'v always worked Good Friday, back in the day it was lucrative fer Bootleg work,
but in recent years the Taxi trade has been very good with only about 10% of
the fleet out on duty.
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Working myself. Used to be a great night back in the good old days when the pubs were (officially) closed. I'd expect this year to be busy enough, if messy, assuming a certain novelty value will attach to pubs operating legally.
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Not much of a difference down here except having to phone the bar man the doors will be open.
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I remember a genuine court report in one of the provincials years ago. The judge asks the publican if he was open after hours as alleged. Don't you know I was, weren't you there yourself your honour...
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Thursday night was Hopping.
Friday night was about the usual.
Saturday night was quieter than usual.
Tonight should be good !
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I was off Thursday, Sunday and Monday. Friday was nothing to write home about, finished at 01:34 myself. Used to be a great night back in the good old days when the pubs were officially closed.
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Sunday night was only OK'ish too, with the Good Friday opening thrown in to the equation,
the Easter bank holiday weekend turned in to a Four night gig instead of the usual bank holiday
3 night gig.
Thursday night and Sunday night were my best Two nights, but like Rats said,
nothing to write home about !
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Thur and Sunday did over 350
Fri was crap and sat I was in Arlington on the lash Monday did 200 easy
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Last night was good. Ended up working right through to 02:06 this morning having started at 20:57, just under a deuce...€2 under to be precise.
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You night drivers are loaded.When the tax man comes after me he's getting all your plate numbers..
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Mondays (or Tuesdays of a bank holiday weekend) are often good as the lads who worked crazy hours over the weekend are all nigga rich so don't bother working. Still, 5 hours is an extremely long shift for me, the like of which I'd usually only attempt of a Friday or Saturday night.
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It's been ok this week.Mostly app work not much on the streets unfortunately.
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Mondays (or Tuesdays of a bank holiday weekend) are often good as the lads who worked crazy hours over the weekend are all nigga rich so don't bother working. Still, 5 hours is an extremely long shift for me, the like of which I'd usually only attempt of a Friday or Saturday night.
I'd be with you on that. Daywork,( by the looks of the drivers) is only for blokes with a pension in the back pocket, and an ugly bird. 8)
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You night drivers are loaded.When the tax man comes after me he's getting all your plate numbers..
Night work is very different to Day work MFH, as I'm sure you know.
By day you get decent sober customers who chat about the weather, you take them from A to B and sometimes they add a small tip.
By night it's a different story, ya get all types of Drunks and Skunks, Prostitutes, Drug Dealers, Alcoholics, Assaulters, Vomitors, Drunken Students, Etc, Etc.. It's a different Ball game by night and it is a dangerous job.
Granted the Night time driver will make more than the Day time driver, but he earns it the hard way,
Night time Taxi driving is Not fer the faint of heart !
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It’s all down to experience.
Just because some turkey sticks up his hand don’t mean you have to stop.
At nighttime when the streets are busy you can pick and choose your work, because there is so much of it one can be selective of who they pick up.
In all my years driving a Jo would never have called night time work dangerous.
Once every so often you pick up a pisshead but that only bucks you up and you go back to be a bit more cautious.
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I've done a few nights it's alright but having worked in pubs and restaurants when I was younger I have no appetite for the nightshift.I don't like being around drunks unless I'm drinking too.Feels like I'm babysitting..When ya know where the offices are around town the days are easy.I also like sleeping at night which could be a problem...
I don't really think it's that dangerous at night...if you don't know how to speak to people when they're clearly starting to get irritated you're gonna get trouble.Plenty of junkies and dealers moving around during the day day if you're into it.Only last week I refused a girl because she was in bits from the Mytaxi app.We're not ambulance drivers....even at night..
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By night it's a different story, ya get all types of Drunks and Skunks, Prostitutes, Drug Dealers, Alcoholics, Assaulters, Vomitors, Drunken Students, Etc, Etc..
And that's only the drivers, the customer's are worser
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It’s all down to experience.
Just because some turkey sticks up his hand don’t mean you have to stop.
At nighttime when the streets are busy you can pick and choose your work, because there is so much of it one can be selective of who they pick up.
In all my years driving a Jo would never have called night time work dangerous.
Once every so often you pick up a pisshead but that only bucks you up and you go back to be a bit more cautious.
The streets of Cork are paved with gold!
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You work with the pissheads john, that’s your market.
I don’t have to rely on taxi ranks and turkeys sticking up there hand to flag you down to make a living.
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Gardai appeal for witnesses after bus driver assault in Cork;
Gardai have appealed for witnesses to come forward after a bus driver was assaulted and robbed by a lone raider in Cork last night.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-appeal-for-witnesses-after-bus-driver-assault-in-cork-836045.html (https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-appeal-for-witnesses-after-bus-driver-assault-in-cork-836045.html)
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Gardai appeal for witnesses after bus driver assault in Cork;
Gardai have appealed for witnesses to come forward after a bus driver was assaulted and robbed by a lone raider in Cork last night.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-appeal-for-witnesses-after-bus-driver-assault-in-cork-836045.html (https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-appeal-for-witnesses-after-bus-driver-assault-in-cork-836045.html)
That's that kunt mcgergor again
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Hope he gets fooked out of The States.
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Hope he gets fooked out of The States.
I hope they keep him
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Hope he gets fooked out of The States.
I hope they keep him
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Let him be the yanks problem.
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The last few rounds with Mayweather are going to look like a Walk in the Park
when he gets banged up in a New York correctional facility !