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Bad day or what !!
« on: August 20, 2014, 09:21:55 PM »
Left the house this morning, covered a 9.45am booking from Calow into town. £7.50
11.00am took a fare to Calow. £6.00
12.00am took a fare to Newbold. £4.00
1.00pm took a fare to Brim. He got out the car and told me he's fetching the money from his Nana.
5 minutes later, nana comes out the house banging on about her grandson's got no money for the taxi, neither has she.
I'm a pensioner you know, I've got no money, I wish he'd stop doing this to me !
I drove off in disgust. Wasn't nana's fault she's got a waste of space as a grandson.
Our_Lass talked me into phoning the police about it. So I did.
They advised I drive back there and ask for the money. If he refuses point blank to pay, phone us back and we'll send an officer round. Or, arrange a time and date for payment. If he doesn't pay as agreed, phone us and we'll send an officer round.
I went back, I saw the lad, and a mate, run back into her house. Nana came walking down the path with a tenner in her hand crying. Please take £4 out of this, it's all I have, I need the rest for the lecky. He'll be the death of me. If you come back next week, I'll have the other £2 for you. I gave her the £6 change, yet I felt guilty, and told her this wasn't her problem. It's his problem. She replied, he does it all the time to me.
She actually put her arms round me and kissed me on the cheek and thanked me for being 'nice about it'  :'(
Lord knows what other drivers have said or threatened her with over non payment !

The police phoned me back about an hour later, how did you get on ?
I told the tale, the lady on the phone said, and here's the good bit.
You should have took a photo of him and shared it with other taxi drivers, it's wrong isn't it.

WHAT !!

So I sat in town for another 2 and a half hours, then did the return on the job to Calow at 4.00pm and went home.
The rest is history.

On a plus side, all this stress whilst wearing my heart monitor, I've been fine  :)

Bad day, nah, hows your's been  ;)




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Re: Bad day or what !!
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2014, 09:30:37 PM »
Oh dear Fly enough to turn anyone to drink.
My day has been driving backwards and forwards into town with short breaks at home.
Tomorrow - having a lie in bed before going out for lunch with my friend  (y)
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Re: Bad day or what !!
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2014, 09:37:34 PM »
Repeated fare dodgers should have their mugshots plastered over the net like DT publisher's shoplifters

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« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2014, 09:40:38 PM »
She asked 'me' to take and share a photo FFS, I don't want the few teeth I've got left knocking out.
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« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2014, 09:40:57 PM »
mmm Fly's deffo had a bad day he's just told me to piss off  :'(
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« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2014, 09:48:28 PM »
No I didn't. I said stop bugging me  MD

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« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2014, 09:52:28 PM »
No I didn't. I said stop bugging me  MD

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I wasn't bugging you - you started it.
and change the colour of that bloody lipstick - I hate red  :P
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« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2014, 10:00:24 PM »
Oh and take that friggin  MD off when you talk to me young man
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« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2014, 10:02:12 PM »
Sorry  O0
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« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2014, 10:05:56 PM »
Sorry  O0

That's better now be a good  MD and bugger off to bedybys.  :-* ( still hate that red lipstick though )
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« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2014, 10:25:39 PM »
Its been a quiet day "on the buses"& I'm looking forward to a long weekend. Nice to see you today Barry, although too briefly.
I picked up a customer in Sheffield recently. Off his tits on drugs & wanted to go to Chesterfield to meet his girlfriend. No valid bus ticket, & no money. So I argue with him for 5 minutes - we get nowhere - he threatens me etc., so I phone plod. After description of events to initial responder, I was put on hold...... and that was it - no response so he got very agitated threatening me again, and was now 10 minutes late for my run. I wasn't going to try & get him off the bus - he was much bigger than me & we can't do that anyway. So I bollocked him verbally in terms of sit there, don't move, don't speak, and if an inspector gets on, we'll deal with it. For all his vocal threats and stuff prior to this, he sat like a pussycat - not a word!
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« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2014, 10:39:06 PM »
Not really something a moderator should post, but, TOSSER !!
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« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2014, 06:22:00 AM »
Tut tut, all this argument sounds like "another place"

& I've just noticed I've written "publisher's" when I meant "publishes" .....the Grammar Nazis will be out to get me

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« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2014, 10:23:29 AM »
Tut tut, all this argument sounds like "another place"

& I've just noticed I've written "publisher's" when I meant "publishes" .....the Grammar Nazis will be out to get me

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Re: Bad day or what !!
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2014, 09:41:00 AM »
I shall add my part and none is bad for once :D
At the place where i work i am already on an account Aon, Well also now working on another account for Transport for London, went live yesterday and was crapping myself.
Back on it today and working on the account bank hol (I would have been in anyway 6-12)
The only question i still have is this, I have been there a year next week, and what should happen is my contract should end and made perm, however CSC have been laying people off recently so i doubt a perm job will be available, others have been there longer and are still temps so i suppose i shouldn't worry too much eh

 

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