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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2023, 12:34:02 pm »
With all the abuse and violence over the years, I never broke down in front of a customer. It only happened when the car would not start after sitting in the rank for over 1 hour.

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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2023, 01:30:15 pm »
I noticed a puncture on a rank one night and another night the battery went dead.

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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2023, 01:33:00 pm »
Another time I got stuck in snow. Yer man says I'm just a little further, inside of a housing estate in the quaint Irish village at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. I was stuck whilst that pox bag had his feet up in front of his telly. Got out after an hour of fluting around with lumps of cardboard and digging the snow away.

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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2023, 01:54:26 am »
X ACT same thing happened to me cept in Harolds Cross.Just a little bit more cos its slippy out there….Poxbottle oops
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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #19 on: June 25, 2023, 09:44:22 pm »
I shed a tear when a punter told me a sob story, does that count? 8)

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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #20 on: June 25, 2023, 10:11:08 pm »
I shed a tear when a punter told me a sob story, does that count? 8)
Defo, I never did that. Tell us the tale ?

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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #21 on: June 26, 2023, 03:30:02 am »
i actually broke down crying one evening.
i picked a lovely argentinian girl up. chattin away to her.
javenny kidge she says.
no i hate children and they fuckin hate me. gary glitter they do shout at me when i'm drivin by the school.
i have a young boy she told me. she says the fuckin father fuckin fucked off. an irish toerag.
she says the child keeps askin her how come i don't have a daddy like everybody else. je not tell it shurrup i said.
in all seriousness let me tell ye i fuckin broke down cryin after she got out. took me a while to get it back together.

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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #22 on: June 26, 2023, 12:20:30 pm »
i actually broke down crying one evening.
i picked a lovely argentinian girl up. chattin away to her.
javenny kidge she says.
no i hate children and they fuckin hate me. gary glitter they do shout at me when i'm drivin by the school.
i have a young boy she told me. she says the fuckin father fuckin fucked off. an irish toerag.
she says the child keeps askin her how come i don't have a daddy like everybody else. je not tell it shurrup i said.
in all seriousness let me tell ye i fuckin broke down cryin after she got out. took me a while to get it back together.

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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #23 on: June 26, 2023, 01:25:41 pm »
The only time I ever felt antin was wen I ran over a poodle ....it all happened very quickly but in slow motion do ya know wat I mean ? Apparently yur brain goes inta hyperdrive wen it sees danger.....anyway ....the poor cnut want on a lead an the owner had crossed the road ahead of him/her they  :-X....an it walked out behind yu know them square bollards they have/ had that lite up an have arrows on them so I didn't see it till last minute .......anyway the abs kicked in an was bangin like fuk an I was roarin at the poor ting ...fer out of the way  for fuk sake "  ....all happenin within a second or 2 .....but he didn't look an had a happy little face an a spring in his step out enjoying his walk an then I went over him ......
The banging underneath the car was like knives hitting me chest ...really awful ....an as I was coming to a stop I cud see the poor thing all contorted an blood all over it....
The owner started to bawl its head off ...an all the onlookers wer starin at me ...I could here them sayin to themselves " murderer "   ....anyway I said to the owner I'm really sorry ...an he said ..." it wasnt yur fault I shud had em on the lead ....but i still felt shit .......
An wen I drove off I cud feel the tears in me eyes an gaspin for breath at the poor little pouches demise  an wat cud of been for the poor ting an I had to go home an hit the bottle a broken man ....
Wen I hear about apes dying .I  just play around in me head  wit  the statistics an the positive impact on climate change
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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #24 on: June 26, 2023, 07:10:22 pm »
The only time I ever felt antin was wen I ran over a poodle ....it all happened very quickly but in slow motion do ya know wat I mean ? Apparently yur brain goes inta hyperdrive wen it sees danger.....anyway ....the poor cnut want on a lead an the owner had crossed the road ahead of him/her they  :-X....an it walked out behind yu know them square bollards they have/ had that lite up an have arrows on them so I didn't see it till last minute .......anyway the abs kicked in an was bangin like fuk an I was roarin at the poor ting ...fer out of the way  for fuk sake "  ....all happenin within a second or 2 .....but he didn't look an had a happy little face an a spring in his step out enjoying his walk an then I went over him ......
The banging underneath the car was like knives hitting me chest ...really awful ....an as I was coming to a stop I cud see the poor thing all contorted an blood all over it....
The owner started to bawl its head off ...an all the onlookers wer starin at me ...I could here them sayin to themselves " murderer "   ....anyway I said to the owner I'm really sorry ...an he said ..." it wasnt yur fault I shud had em on the lead ....but i still felt shit .......
An wen I drove off I cud feel the tears in me eyes an gaspin for breath at the poor little pouches demise  an wat cud of been for the poor ting an I had to go home an hit the bottle a broken man ....
Wen I hear about apes dying .I  just play around in me head  wit  the statistics an the positive impact on climate change
I picked up a guy who was on day release from the Psych unit of Clonskeagh Hospital. We were travelling along South Lotts Road when a dog ran in front of my car, like Octy, it was too late and all I could hear was the howling of the poor mutt.

I pulled over and got out to see what I could do, which was nothing. His leg was shattered and up around the back of his head. Some woman was roaring "Someone call a Vet"...on a Sunday?  I was imagining it being like Nigeria, if you report a corpse on the street, it becomes your responsibility and you bear the cost.

So I hopped back in the car only to find the nervous passenger smoking like a trooper!!

I also clobbered a fox in Greystones who sounded like he was wrapped up around the wheel arch. While the wheel arch moulding was gone, do you think I could find the fox? No chance.

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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #25 on: June 26, 2023, 07:19:49 pm »
So far, over the years I've ran over a dog and 2 cats. None survived.  Another time I was booting down the side of the airport early one morning and I could see a pigeon on the road. I thought he'd fly away in time but he didn't.  He flew up and hit the front grill of gbe car. I looked in the mirror and all I could see was a cloud of feathers slowly floating down. Months later the gear linkage went on the car and the mechanic said something smashed the plastic thing at the end of the wire that sits on the gearbox.  It was the pigeons beak or bones or something that was after cracking it as it disintegrated when it flew through the mesh. Little cnut was after getting his own back.

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« Reply #26 on: June 26, 2023, 07:54:02 pm »
So far, over the years I've ran over a dog and 2 cats. None survived.  Another time I was booting down the side of the airport early one morning and I could see a pigeon on the road. I thought he'd fly away in time but he didn't.  He flew up and hit the front grill of gbe car. I looked in the mirror and all I could see was a cloud of feathers slowly floating down. Months later the gear linkage went on the car and the mechanic said something smashed the plastic thing at the end of the wire that sits on the gearbox.  It was the pigeons beak or bones or something that was after cracking it as it disintegrated when it flew through the mesh. Little cnut was after getting his own back.
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« Reply #27 on: June 26, 2023, 07:56:31 pm »
So far, over the years I've ran over a dog and 2 cats. None survived.  Another time I was booting down the side of the airport early one morning and I could see a pigeon on the road. I thought he'd fly away in time but he didn't.  He flew up and hit the front grill of gbe car. I looked in the mirror and all I could see was a cloud of feathers slowly floating down. Months later the gear linkage went on the car and the mechanic said something smashed the plastic thing at the end of the wire that sits on the gearbox.  It was the pigeons beak or bones or something that was after cracking it as it disintegrated when it flew through the mesh. Little cnut was after getting his own back.

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Octy and Ermy back as pigeons:
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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #28 on: June 26, 2023, 10:17:44 pm »
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Re: Have any of you ever broken down with customers on board?
« Reply #29 on: June 26, 2023, 10:24:20 pm »
That anti murderer radar on the prius is fukin brilliant...tink I was tellin yous last week bout it touching the brakes on the motorway wen a blackbird flew across me ....but it worked it out in a nano second that ther was not threat an released ....yu can see how robotic cars will drastically save millions of animals an apes in the future ....
It slammed on wen I first got it wen a stupid owlone on a bike cycled out between two  high sided vans rite in me path ....it seen her before she cud be seen ...fantastic technology that's  still evolvin ..imagine wen wer all dead cars will be driven by empathetically programmed robots ...
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