Category Archives: women

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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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 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 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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July 4, 2007

One Last Holiday

It was late and about bed time as I sat enjoying a well earned drink in a quiet outside bar on a hot night on the Island of Crete. My ears pricked up when I heard two guys talking with … Continue reading →

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June 9, 2007

Dancers and Sad Sacks

Well the local parade season has started with our neighbours in Dalton enjoying a sunny Saturday for their annual bash. As usual the main streets were blocked and as usual we had folks who rang up wanting picking up from … Continue reading →

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April 9, 2007

Education

You know learning is a two way thing, well that’s what I found today anyway when I was talking to two of my passengers. They were both old lasses going to the bingo and the first who was wearing a … Continue reading →

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April 3, 2007

The Secret

I couldn’t help but overhear my lady customer being told as she walked towards the car to “remember keep quiet, tell nobody it’s a secret.” But of course being a women, within thirty seconds of getting in the cab she … Continue reading →

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April 2, 2007

Jokers

Sunday morning and the 1st of April and of course we get the usual rash of phony phone calls for taxi’s to fake addresses. This is to be expected, and we get them every April fools day, but it seems … Continue reading →

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March 25, 2007

The Prisoners

Two characters that I picked up one after the other early this Sunday morning had something in common. One had been a prisoner and the other was wishing that he had been one as well. The first I picked up … Continue reading →

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March 11, 2007

Gullible and Embarrassed

Sunday seems to be the day for picking characters up, well it does for me anyway, and this Sunday was no different. First one of the day was the girl who I picked up with her boyfriend, from a house … Continue reading →

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March 2, 2007

Drive in DMV

Most people called to take a driving test at the DMV park their car in the lot and take a seat inside to wait their turn, but an 80-year-old woman was caught on camera skipping one crucial step – she … Continue reading →

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March 2, 2007

Uniform

I hope they don’t make this new Taxi Driver Uniform compulsory, I just don’t think that it would suit most local drivers that I know! But if you want one yourself here’s the link.

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February 16, 2007

Worst Women Driver?

How on earth did she manage this!

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February 11, 2007

Stags and Hens

It seems that a night out at Newcastle’s Quayside this weekend would have been like going out round Barrow. At least four bus loads of party’s to celebrate stag and hen nights set of this Saturday morning, with about fifty … Continue reading →

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February 6, 2007

Chocolate Girl

I had a job today taking a young lass to a photographers studio, she was very nervous and told me that this was her first time in the studio. I was amazed when she went on to tell me that … Continue reading →

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