Friday night bites

Why do the weekend nights seem to come around so quickly? Don't get me wrong, I love being busy in the cab, but the nights seem soo long.

I live in a smaller city, around 100k people or so, and we have six colleges in the area. Weekends are a free for all. I make as much money working weekend nights, as I did in a whole week at my previous job.


That being said...you earn your money. The younger college students do not know how to hold their liquor. The weekend is fighting, crying, passing out, ball's in the face, 5 stops per fare, and let's not forget the students favorite game...calling every cab company in the phone book and then flagging down the first cab that they see.


Weekends are not all bad though...they are kind of fun until bar close. Free entertainment. I have stories for days, and I could have enough dates for a year if I wanted them...add a youngISH female in a cab with drunken guys and suddenly they love you, heck you could put a mailbox with a blonde wig behind the wheel and they would probably feel the same way. Plus people just throw money at you on weekend nights because they are go grateful to get a cab at all...the police are now trying to ruin this, but I will get into that another day.


And why, you ask, are people so grateful to get a cab? I will tell you why....bar close. Where I live bar close is 2:00 am, most people can't seem to figure out that maybe it would be best to leave the bar even a half hour before that. So what happens? The bars lock their doors and throw everyone out on the streets. It looks like a scene right out of the living dead! There are mobs of people in the streets ATTACKING cabs...even if they are full. It takes a good hour or two for the cabs to get everyone home. I had one person climb on my cab, and the police had to remove him. People physically fight over cabs. And they ALWAYS try to overload (Don't worry, we will give you a really good tip. Yeah, right. NO thanks.)


So there it is, my first post. Sort of lame, but it's early morning for me. Looking forward to tonight!