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About yellowandblackmail

I pick people up and take them where they want to go.

Random musings and the time to post them

My last shift (Sunday), I had two rides in a row with blind ladies. Today it was two rides in a row with nearly deaf ladies. Tomorrow… Mute ladies? OR MONKEYS!? IS IT MONKEYS!??  (Get it?  See no evil, hear … Continue reading

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Old white men

So the cab I picked up tonight was left less-than-clean, but not a pig sty. There was a paper left on the passenger’s seat and a paper left between the driver’s seat and the middle compartment. I hate that someone … Continue reading

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Shit Sandwich

I got a weird-awesome compliment at work from one of my passengers. I’ll type it out here: “Sunday one of your cabs gave me a ride home from St. Mary’s hospital after a particularly bad case of food poisoning. To … Continue reading

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Daydreaming

I’m seriously daydreaming about writing a book about taxi driving in Madison. It’s been done, and it’s been done for different cities, but it’d be something for me to do. I’m even lightly organizing chapters in my head. “10 most … Continue reading

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This will cost you an arm and a leg.

Sorry it’s been awhile since I’ve written! Our summer has been much busier than summers past, and generally the weirdos and strange coincidences happen when it’s slow. Well, yesterday was Labor Day, and it was slow! I’ll start with Sunday night, though. … Continue reading

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