Taxi Wars

A few months ago I noticed that my laptop's LCD backlight powered off if I leaned the screen most of the way back. The image was still v...

For some time I have quipped when asked for an id, "You're not a real person if you don't have a plastic card." This was ...

My third passenger this morning was going home from Dialysis - she's on the 3x/week maintenance program. While sitting at the light at 9...

Saturday opened with a prosaic series of fares. A woman going to work stopped at the Shell station for Powerade, as she'd been drinking ...

I recently posted a diary about how I am sometimes able to appear instantly. This happened again last Monday night. I only had six fares (an...

Yesterday I was going through a box, and found an envelope with some cash. These bills were received in payment from a few of my passengers....

Usually I like to develop my diaries a bit. But since kuro5hin.org is on time-out right now I'll keep it short. After my shift today I...

Every so often I get a fare where I can show up very quickly. One night I pulled into a Circle K to work on my notes. It was well after 2am,...

Sometimes I am sent to passengers, and sometimes they are sent to me. I have learned any number of things from the people who have stepped i...

Drivers who have one of the company's wheelchair vans usually have a list of people who they are to pick up at appointed times. I also h...

A few months back a passenger & her daughter had me go to a "tobacco shop". I recently moved closer that shop, and my roommate...

Yesterday I went to the local Hallmark store to browse cards. Before visiting Mr. Crawford last November, I sent a rainbow & glitter car...

A few months ago I had a passenger ask for tunes, so I turned the radio on. This anthem for taxi-cab driving came on. At the time this song...

When I started my taxi driving odyssey about a year ago, I had no idea what I was getting into. One of my early passengers was a very-preg...