On most mornings, you begin your day with somewhat of a positive attitude. Why not? All you have to do is get your call from the dispatcher, roll on it, pick the people up and take them where they want to go. It is not always that simple.
I got a ride at 4:45 AM, at about the time you would expect a "time-call" to come out for a pick up in which you have 15 minutes to get there. The people said they wanted to use a credit card to pay. Cool. Everything seemed to be going well.
Until I got there.
This man and woman came out of the house and they had to have been drinking all night long. Why, the woman was more concerned about if she could smoke in the cab instead of where they were going. She kept screaming "Do you take credit cards. Your dispatcher said you do." True. But not true. I take them for business people and people going to the airport, not for fucked up drunk people.
They went to 606 W Azelle street. The man gave me his phone and said he would go inside and get the money, and I could hold his phone, and her, as collateral.
He never came back.
She was pissed. She said he was going to get her some weed and now she had nothing.
Fine. I told her SHE now owed me the fare. At first she refused to pay. I told her I would put her in jail if she did not.
She finally took that Goddamn credit card and bought me $30 worth of gas.
What is funny, is that when I was dropping her off back at her place, the guys phone rang and he said he was sorry, but his girlfriend was giving him major shit about being out with the chick I had in the cab.
She now said she was hungry and wanted me to take her to MacDonald's. I agreed. I did not know that we would wait in line for twenty minutes while every other stoner in Tampa put in their order for .."I'll take ahhhh...ahhhh.....number 1, no2...ahhh...ahhh..."
This job is not for everybody.
OH NOES MY TAXES ARE GOING BACK TO THE WAY THEY WERE IN 2001 LET ME MAKE UP ALL KINDS OF LIES TO SPREAD FEAR. DOWN WITH THE GOVERNMENT! FEAR, CLING TO YOUR GUNS TOO DESPITE THE FACT OBAMA IS PRO OWNERSHIP!
BE AFRAID! "