How many DUers have ever driven Taxi?

[eyepaddle]

I can't be the only one, can I?

I haven't done this since I was in college more than ten years ago, but it was definitely one of my more "memorable" jobs--to say the very least! :blush:

On edit: yes this was inspired by another thread.

[Roon]

1. I have driven cab

It is a very interesting job, that's for sure.

[eyepaddle]

3. The first year it was like looking for buried treasure

you just had NO idea what you were going to find!

I had a lotta weird shit happen in my car, some hysterical, some scary, some aggravating, some just "weird: but nothing I know of can top a friends' experience. His first night on the job he had a famous (for the town) cranky old severely alcoholic woman die in his car.

I had a couple of passengers that I had to keep a close eye on, but damn, on the first night! Believe it or not he didn't quit.

If I may, where'd you drive?

[Roon]

4. I drove in Denver eom

[Redstone]

2. Yes. 1970, Norristown, PA. Horrible clapped-out Plymouths that burned

two quarts of oil a day, no air conditioning, 7 AM to 5 PM shifts...blech.

Redstone

[eyepaddle]

5. I was 5pm to 3 am

unless they needed me until 6.

At least my outfit supplied the motor oil, and had their own in house mechanic to keep the cars maintained.

[Redstone]

12. Yeah, we didn't have to pay for the oil either.

We'd not have made a cent if we'd had to.

The good deals were the runs to Graterford Prison, which were flat-rate, and we got to have a decent amount of time to eat lunch while they were visiting theri relatives in the slam...

I've put my time in on the crap jobs...though I think the taxi driving beat the cardboard-box factory gig.

Redstone

[oneighty]

6. Yes

Yellow Cab, Charleston, South Carolina.

Taxi-driver end of the road. I like to think of it as being 'Between Jobs'.

But oh one can learn a lot.

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[eyepaddle]

8. I was Yellow Cab in Winona MN

I remember thinking I knew what drunk was--it turns out I had no idea--until drunk got into my car and couldn't remember where it lived.

Or that one guy who didn't believe me when I told him we weren't in Bloomington (over 100 miles away).

And watching people desperately try to hook up on the ride home was generally priceless!

[oneighty]

10. I have written stories

about my cab driving days. I progressed in the company to the office collecting 'rental fees' from the drivers. All in all a learning experience. Ray-gun days. Jobs were hard to find.

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[rug]

7. NYC 70-72

[Maestro]

9. I've ridden in a cab in Madrid, Spain.

It was a wild ride! But I have never driven a cab.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. NYC for several years

a long time ago

[Burma Jones]

13. Houston, TX

Yellow Cab, Drove about three weeks when I had a gun stuck to the back of my head. After handing the man my meager fares, I returned the Cab and started waiting tables. Six months later, I left Houston for DC and never looked back.....