What better way to decorate the back seat and carpet in your car? Chips and grated cheese...Bloody marvellous!! Sunday afternoon spent hoovering and wiping everywhere down in the car and this is what you find...I'm going ask if I can have a trailer on the back..
Amazing, just when you need to hoover the car it hammers down with rain all day..Ah well it was a thirty quid job and at least I got paid..
Tuesday night and I'm erring on the side of night off..Streets are empty and all you get is the hardened drinker taking home a belly full of beer and passing on their wisdom, in between burps and farts..
Tuesday 26 October 2010
Saturday 16 October 2010
Not Tonight Mate!!!
As the inquest continues into the lack of comments on my blog...here's a subject to ' warm the cockles of your heart.' and maybe stir a few door-
mant emotions...
Doormen..Bouncers..Party Poopers...Thugs...Bully Boys...Yes you guessed it the unintelligent body mass standing between you and a good night out..
Here are a few of the excuses you will hear as you try in vain to get in your favoured haunt..tonight!!
Your hair is too long..or too short, We don't allow tattoos, You're wearing the wrong shoes..wrong trousers wrong shirt, no jeans, no T shirts, there's too many of you...Where you from? Where's your ID, We don't like your face..your girlfriend can come in but you can't..You're too drunk..not drunk enough..We barred you last week..Phew...Cause I'm in a bad mood and I need to impress the girls standing behind you..move on..I said move on..
Have they got massive chips on their shoulders..who would stand on a club door at the weekend with that look on their face that says ' I'm going to cock up your night..your weekend stops here '
mant emotions...
Doormen..Bouncers..Party Poopers...Thugs...Bully Boys...Yes you guessed it the unintelligent body mass standing between you and a good night out..
Here are a few of the excuses you will hear as you try in vain to get in your favoured haunt..tonight!!
Your hair is too long..or too short, We don't allow tattoos, You're wearing the wrong shoes..wrong trousers wrong shirt, no jeans, no T shirts, there's too many of you...Where you from? Where's your ID, We don't like your face..your girlfriend can come in but you can't..You're too drunk..not drunk enough..We barred you last week..Phew...Cause I'm in a bad mood and I need to impress the girls standing behind you..move on..I said move on..
Have they got massive chips on their shoulders..who would stand on a club door at the weekend with that look on their face that says ' I'm going to cock up your night..your weekend stops here '
Thursday 14 October 2010
Dual Badge..dual personality hee hee..
That's it, badge renewed for thee years...might it be my last one..who knows??
Got a dual badge now...what's all that about..ya mean I can drive a Hackney in the day and Private Hire by night or vice versa...why would I? I think I said it before, Private Hire drivers have more fun and they do...
Big roly poly piece in my car last night...pink dressing gown and black and white spotted pyjamas, going to accident and emergency..you just wouldn't..couldn't stop shaking..couldn't stop laughing that was me..Then there's the drunken Irish guy..looking for the sanctuary of my cab...he smelled so strong of beer you'd think he'd had a bath in the stuff...different pick up place every time but never forgets where he lives..and the conversation is an education in itself..last night it was the internet..I think I flummoxed him when I asked him if he'd tried www.donkeyjacket and after paying me he staggered down his path with a puzzled expression on his face..Ahh roll on the weekend..
Got a dual badge now...what's all that about..ya mean I can drive a Hackney in the day and Private Hire by night or vice versa...why would I? I think I said it before, Private Hire drivers have more fun and they do...
Big roly poly piece in my car last night...pink dressing gown and black and white spotted pyjamas, going to accident and emergency..you just wouldn't..couldn't stop shaking..couldn't stop laughing that was me..Then there's the drunken Irish guy..looking for the sanctuary of my cab...he smelled so strong of beer you'd think he'd had a bath in the stuff...different pick up place every time but never forgets where he lives..and the conversation is an education in itself..last night it was the internet..I think I flummoxed him when I asked him if he'd tried www.donkeyjacket and after paying me he staggered down his path with a puzzled expression on his face..Ahh roll on the weekend..
Monday 11 October 2010
Monday Morning Aaaagh..
Got to get a new pair of shoes...seem to have worn the old ones out on the accelerator pedal..only fit for the bin now.
Been flying the flag for Private Hire Drivers since August..is it only London Cabbies who twitter??? In this area the Hackneys do a lot of sitting around the station..can't be much fun..well there's too many of them..
Lot's of the Hackneys are joining the two main Private Hire companies, cause they can't make the job pay...Don't you wish the council would stop meddling with the taxi trade and let us get on with earning a crust..
Speaking of crusts...that's all it was this weekend, I might just as well turned counsellor to advise the damsels in distress..This weekends familiar theme was ' all men are control freaks ' it's the times we live in I think..
The guys seem to spend most of the night worrying who the girlfriends are talking too or looking at..than having a drink..It's amusing when I look in the rear view mirror and the couple in the back are sitting as far apart as they can giving each other dirty looks..it knocks the ' icebreaking ' on the head...
Been flying the flag for Private Hire Drivers since August..is it only London Cabbies who twitter??? In this area the Hackneys do a lot of sitting around the station..can't be much fun..well there's too many of them..
Lot's of the Hackneys are joining the two main Private Hire companies, cause they can't make the job pay...Don't you wish the council would stop meddling with the taxi trade and let us get on with earning a crust..
Speaking of crusts...that's all it was this weekend, I might just as well turned counsellor to advise the damsels in distress..This weekends familiar theme was ' all men are control freaks ' it's the times we live in I think..
The guys seem to spend most of the night worrying who the girlfriends are talking too or looking at..than having a drink..It's amusing when I look in the rear view mirror and the couple in the back are sitting as far apart as they can giving each other dirty looks..it knocks the ' icebreaking ' on the head...
Wednesday 6 October 2010
In Real Time...
Wednesday morning...Three days since the passing of one of my all time favourites comics, Sir Norman Wisdom. What a legend he was, I was brought up on his hilarious films and treasure my box set of his finest..
As a Manchester United fan I feel I should smile at the continuing demise of Liverpool Football Club, a bitter rival but no club is safe today it's all about money and greed...
Attended a meeting with Licensing officers yesterday...talked about continuing bias towards Hackney cabs...excuses excuses...always looking for ' wriggle room ' to give the Private Hire Trade a hard time..
As a Manchester United fan I feel I should smile at the continuing demise of Liverpool Football Club, a bitter rival but no club is safe today it's all about money and greed...
Attended a meeting with Licensing officers yesterday...talked about continuing bias towards Hackney cabs...excuses excuses...always looking for ' wriggle room ' to give the Private Hire Trade a hard time..
Sunday 3 October 2010
Hackney.... No Thanks...
Surveys carried out, admittedly rather crudely, will show that most fare paying customers in this neck of the woods prefer to use Private Hire cars than Hackney cabs...Why you might ask???
For a start the general perception is that Hackney cabs are more expensive...swings and roundabouts I say...and who wants to be picked up in a big black ugly thing, they say...
The powers that be say it's safer to travel by Hackney and they're easier to identify...I say there's a bias but it doesn't work...There's a more personal thing about using a car as opposed to a cab..maybe that's why the Hackneys are outnumbered by a ratio of four to one...in truth there are too many taxis on the road in Chester today and it impacts on the wages you can earn..try telling that to Cheshire West and Chester Council...they don't listen...
As is the case with most Licensing authorities throughout the country...they make their own rules up as they go along, taking little or no notice of the drivers..
For instance, The Hackneys in Chester commissioned their own survey, at great expense, to determine the need for extra cabs in the area and the results were ignored, the council opted for their own survey and today the ranks are overflowing mainly with new Hackneys some of the owners are struggling to make a living and make their monthly payments on brand new cabs....
For more years than I can remember Private Hire have had no say in what goes on and what rules are imposed on them. Last year I was instrumental with five other drivers in setting up our own Private Hire Association and we took up the cudgel in an effort to be heard...It's a long hard road and to date we only have a few minor concessions from a Licensing authority seemingly ' hell bent ' pushing both Private Hire and Hackney to the limit..
For a start the general perception is that Hackney cabs are more expensive...swings and roundabouts I say...and who wants to be picked up in a big black ugly thing, they say...
The powers that be say it's safer to travel by Hackney and they're easier to identify...I say there's a bias but it doesn't work...There's a more personal thing about using a car as opposed to a cab..maybe that's why the Hackneys are outnumbered by a ratio of four to one...in truth there are too many taxis on the road in Chester today and it impacts on the wages you can earn..try telling that to Cheshire West and Chester Council...they don't listen...
As is the case with most Licensing authorities throughout the country...they make their own rules up as they go along, taking little or no notice of the drivers..
For instance, The Hackneys in Chester commissioned their own survey, at great expense, to determine the need for extra cabs in the area and the results were ignored, the council opted for their own survey and today the ranks are overflowing mainly with new Hackneys some of the owners are struggling to make a living and make their monthly payments on brand new cabs....
For more years than I can remember Private Hire have had no say in what goes on and what rules are imposed on them. Last year I was instrumental with five other drivers in setting up our own Private Hire Association and we took up the cudgel in an effort to be heard...It's a long hard road and to date we only have a few minor concessions from a Licensing authority seemingly ' hell bent ' pushing both Private Hire and Hackney to the limit..
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