Saturday 01/17/09

Well tonight was rather interesting.

I booked a total of $229, of which $105 made its way to the base and of course I spent enough on gas tonight around $32 to be exact.

Yes, it seems the car I was driving tonight is now getting bad fuel economy, my estimates are roughly 9-10MPG.

Any who, I think the best part of my night, was the ride to Jersey City.

I picked up a young girl going out to Jersey City at around 4am.

She was a very nice young woman, very talkative and at least somewhat intelligent.

She had mentioned that she was supposed to go home around midnight but had fallen asleep at her boyfriends house.

She had requested a driver with a GPS (yup I'm the only guy on the job with one) because she doesn't know the way to her house from the Bronx, which is fine.

I got the call about 25min before the pickup so I was lucky enough to charge my GPS at the base as it was already dead.

Doing this gave me enough juice to go there and back.

Tonight was the first night I got beat for a fare.

So there I was in the Square driving around, there were two young black girls hailing down cabs, since no one stopped for them I thought I would be nice and do so.

They got in my cab and told me to go to 205th and Mosholu Parkway.

I told them it would be $12 and they agreed.

So they had instructed me to drop them off on the corner of their block and that way I could jump right back on the parkway to go back to my base.

Here is where it gets interesting.

They both get out of the cab, the girl tells me oh theres my mom in the car in front of you.

I say fine, they walk over to the van and they were talking to the people in the van like they knew them, then they walked away.

I assumed that someone from the van would come over and pay me.

LOL WAS I WRONG!

A Hispanic woman got out of the van and walked away from me, I asked the woman for the money for taking her daughter's home , she turned to me and said sir these are my only kids, at which she pointed to 2 little girls by her side.

I was pissed to say the least, I reversed it down the 1 way in an attempt to find the fuckers.

Sadly it was too late.

I decided to cut my losses and drove off.

Remember folks get the money up front.

Any who on my way back from Jersey I filled up for $1.60/gal, that ended up costing me 25 + $2 tip for the guy.

Also tonight was the first night Joe Solomon dispatched to me, it wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be.

With him on he got me up to around $100 booked before 11pm.

So all in all the night was half decent.

Any who I'm off to bed ciao!