Damn, man… this is starting to become a TRADITION now, dude… are we gonna do this every Halloween? Clayton called the weekend before Halloween, asking if I can pick up him and his new wife Clara and take them to a bar. I said of course I can, and I headed over to his place […]
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Clayton Makes The Blog III: Dude, You Are Killin’ Me
Posted: 4th December 2014 by Taxi Hack in UncategorizedTags: Drunks, The Job, Zombies
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Yes, Uber Sucks, And Let Me Explain Why
Posted: 5th November 2014 by Taxi Hack in UncategorizedTags: The Job
People ask me a couple of times per week about Uber, and if I think they will someday significantly impact my business, and my answer is always a confident “no”. I have heard several high-profile people, including Mary Katharine Ham at HotAir.com and even Senator Marco Rubio praise Uber as a “new tech company that […]
My First Attempt At Political Heckling
Posted: 21st October 2014 by Taxi Hack in UncategorizedTags: Douchebags, Politics
Never before has it happened that a post here gets both the Politics and Douchebags tags, but here we are. I was sitting in one of my favorite spots downtown several days ago, when a silver SUV pulled up a few parking spaces away, and a fashionable guy in a tie got out and went […]
Vignette: A Thought On God And The Fairer Sex
Posted: 18th October 2014 by Taxi Hack in UncategorizedTags: Drunks, Vignettes
In theatrical script writing, sketch stories, and poetry, a vignette is a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, an idea, or a setting, and sometimes an object. -Wikipedia Girls, skip this post. Really. Move on… No, really. Move on. Nothing to see here. OK, guys, […]
Vignette: Tonsil Stones
Posted: 20th September 2014 by Taxi Hack in UncategorizedTags: Drunks, Vignettes, WTF?
In theatrical script writing, sketch stories, and poetry, a vignette is a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, an idea, or a setting, and sometimes an object. -Wikipedia I’ve been away, I know… busy, busy, busy… but I have a quick one from the other […]
I picked up a guy a week or two ago who was in his mid 30s that looked a little scruffy, covered in tats and a very wild and woolly beard. He wanted to go to a low-budget, no-name, mom-and-pop motel a few miles away. He looked a little sketchy, but I noticed that he […]
Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Strafe The Border
Posted: 8th July 2014 by Taxi Hack in UncategorizedTags: Politics
In my post The Pig Trap, I posited that our current situation is not a left/right or liberal/conservative or Democrat/Republican issue, but an “us against them” issue… “we the people” versus the political class, and our current immigration mess illustrates that perfectly. The truth is that the political class of both parties are perfectly OK […]
The Inside Baseball Of Driving A Taxi
Posted: 28th June 2014 by Taxi Hack in UncategorizedTags: Douchebags, Drunks, The Job, Zombies
One of my fellow hacks in my company has told me on more than one occasion that I should write more about the business aspects of driving a taxi. I asked him why, and he says that he gets asked about it all the time, that people are interested in the minutiae of taxi driving, […]
Apologies to my readers, but there is a guy who followed me over here from HotAir.com leaving comments that are completely irrelevant to this blog, and he apparently has a bug up his ass because I won’t post them and engage in a philosophical debate with him, on a topic that has little or no […]
Clayton Makes The Blog II: Post For Clara
Posted: 9th May 2014 by Taxi Hack in UncategorizedTags: Drunks, The Job
One thing I don’t think I will ever understand about being a taxi driver is the way our passengers view us and relate to us. We are relative or even total strangers to our passengers, yet many of them voluntarily tell us extremely intimate things, and behave like our understanding and confidentiality are just part […]