Category Archives: character

November 4, 2007

Turkey n Tinsel

Early Sunday morning and I just couldn’t believe the amount of keen workers streaming over the bridge to our local BAE shipyard. What was going on? I have never seen it so busy at the weekend. All was explained when … Continue reading →

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October 31, 2007

Horror

It was just another local supermarket pickup and I thought nothing of it until one of the three lady fares opened the boot. I was just getting out of the car to help with the bags when a blood curdling … Continue reading →

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October 29, 2007

Mr Nostalgia

The bleary eyed guy I picked up early this Sunday morning was reminiscing about Sundays as they used to be. “Aye they’ve ruined Sundays with these new all day licensing laws, you know” he said. “I used to love the … Continue reading →

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October 22, 2007

The Hero and the Fool

Sunday mornings hero of the week award must go to one of our taxi drivers. He took the chance of taking the 22miles 40 minute drive out to Flookburgh to rescue a stranded drunk from a vague address. The job … Continue reading →

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October 20, 2007

Empty Pub

Two of the characters that I picked up on Saturday afternoon were the type that empty pubs in a hurry. The first got in the cab and asked to be taken home “going home early have you had enough?” I … Continue reading →

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October 18, 2007

No Cash

Lol who is a big country and western fan is one of our more colourful local taxi drivers. His cab sports a sticker on the rear which he bought on his travels to Australia. It says “Driver carries no cash, … Continue reading →

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August 28, 2007

Karma Kab

Maybe I should take a leaf out of the book of Karma-Kabs from London, and import myself a nice Ambassador car from India. I can just see myself riding round in one of these silk and satin decorated, ragga music … Continue reading →

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August 28, 2007

Last Lost Weekend

Well that’s the last bank holiday weekend of this year over and done with, and a busy one it was too. All the super Sunday boozers were out in force, with records surely being broken for this years drunken staggering … Continue reading →

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August 20, 2007

Doh!

We had reached the end of the cab ride and it was time to extract the fare. “Two thirty please” I asked and waited patiently to be paid. “Sorry what did you say” said my fare, I repeated “two thirty.” … Continue reading →

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August 19, 2007

My Mate Jimmy

It was 7:30am on a wet Sunday morning and the party was still in full swing as I waited outside a town centre house for my fare. After a minute or two a guy dashed out and opened the cab … Continue reading →

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August 18, 2007

Fabula

The lady passenger I picked up from our local hospital was furious. She told me that she had been waiting for months to see a specialist about a skin complaint. Finally after weeks of suffering she gets to see the … Continue reading →

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August 13, 2007

Aristobum

More revelations are coming to light just days after wayward aristocrat Charles James Spencer-Churchill, known as Jamie Blandford faced Oxford Crown Court for an unprovoked road rage attack. It was on Monday that Blandford, whose ancestral home is the Blenheim … Continue reading →

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August 5, 2007

Damsel in Distress

When I drove into the quiet cul-de-sac, early this Sunday morning a car passed driving out. Then as I waited outside the address I was given the car returned and a couple got out. That’s our house the guy said … Continue reading →

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August 4, 2007

Losing the Plot

It’s all too common to see folk fly into a fit of road rage nowadays but when a driver who happened to be a lady stopped in the road unsure of driving between badly parked cars, it wasn’t a driver … Continue reading →

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July 27, 2007

Wrong Number

My day off and it was time to head to our local landmark gent’s hairdressers Ken Riley’s for a head crop. Whilst chatting with the lovely young lady who was doing her best to tame my unruly mop, she told … Continue reading →

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July 24, 2007

Trade Plate Man

Anyone who has traveled the highways and byways of the UK will have seen a trade plate man. These are the guys we see stood carrying their red and white number plates at major road intersections and motorway service stations, … Continue reading →

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July 22, 2007

Piggy in the Middle

I knew as soon as I clapped eyes on my fare that he was trouble. The clues lay in the litre bottle of vodka in each pocket and the tell-tale “blow-holes”in his cheap fake designer polyester track suit. For those … Continue reading →

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July 16, 2007

Tombstoning

From what quite a number of fares tell me the stupid craze of tombstoning has been raising it’s ugly head here in Barrow. Tombstoning is foolishly jumping of cliffs or high structures into water, at least two people in the … Continue reading →

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July 9, 2007

Smoke Zombies

Well it’s over a week or so since the smoking ban came into effect and I thought I would give my view on how it’s going. One of the first things I have noticed is how quickly folk adapt to … Continue reading →

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July 8, 2007

Happy

A dwarf got into my taxi the other night and started complaining about the fare! When we reached his destination he paid jumped out and said by the way I’m not happy you know! I said which one are you … Continue reading →

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