Posts tagged "taxi"
Cabbie Chronicles chapter 5: The Cellphone Sized Cockroach
It was about three am one morning when I found myself pulling up to a Kum and Go gas station to fuel up. I figured I wasn’t going to get anymore calls so I decided to shut it down early. I stepped out to get the pump started and dropped one of the cellphones I...
Cabbie Chronicles chapter 1: Dude Look, All I Got is Lotto Tickets
Cabbie Chronicles chapter 1: Dude Look, All I Got is Lotto Tickets About four a.m. one night a chick calls me up. Halfway to her destination she informs me that she intends to pay me with lottery tickets. Yep… lady go bye bye. I don’t want any lottery tickets. The only thing that crossed my...
An NYC Taxi Medallion, quite possibly one of the best investments in the world.
As Wall Street still wobbles under the pressure of a weak economy, one New York asset class stands firmly on all four wheels. Taxi medallions — required licenses fastened to the hoods of all New York City yellow cabs — have rocketed in value at a time when many investments have plummeted. The average rate...
Cabbie Chronicles chapter 3: The Exploding Testicle
Been a while since I dropped one of these… I picked this guy up from the hospital one night at about 2 a.m. I noticed the guy was wearing a full set of scrubs. You know the kind they give you when they have to cut all your clothes off. I asked the guy if...
Cost To Get An NYC Taxi Drivers License
Ah… New York, the proverbial Mecca of Cab Driving. So How much does it Cost To Get An NYC Taxi Drivers License? The amount of $480 (spread between the seven steps) which is about the least one can spend in the process, and does not allow for, or explain the six or seven steps that...
Diary of a Mad DC Cabbie
If you can look past this guy’s borderline brushes with racism you might actually see the humor in his writing. Hell it’s made me chuckle on more than one occasion. His latest post which mention two people I hadn’t heard of in my past readings was especially touching. He talks about meeting up with Pastor...
Taxi Movies
One time for the cats that make a living grippin’ the wheel. A little list of Movies I’ve compiled those in the biz might find interesting. A struggling taxi company has struggling taxi drivers with heavy emotional issues, add to this a serial killer who is after the taxi drivers and apparently enjoys killing them...
Cabbie Chronicles chapter 2: The Booty Scratcher
I was sitting in the passenger seat of a cab outside of a Kroger grocery store with the seat reclined waiting for a customer. An aspiring shopper pulled up and parked in the space next to me. I’m assuming she didn’t notice the vehicle was occupied because I saw here look around through the door...