What sport are we celebrating again?

Posted on April 10, 2014 by yellowandblackmail

University of Wisconsin sports fans are crazy.  Nearly as insane as Packer fans, who will go watch football outside with 80,000 of their closest friends in negative seventeen degree weather.  UW Badger fans generally stick to football but if one of the other sports programs is doing well, they hop on that bandwagon screaming how they are experts on all the players and positions, then critique with impudence.

Most recently, I think it was basketball.  Something about a final four, but it wasn’t in town.  I was fooled for a while, though, considering there was approximately 6,000 people mobbed within one block of State Street after winning a game on Saturday, March 29th.  People started seeing a tweeted photo of the “mob” on State St and then they started calling us to give them rides TO it. Continue reading →

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Cock Suckers.
I picked up a troupe of gentlemen from a gentlemen’s club this past weekend.  They behaved themselves very well.  They didn’t do any of the typical hitting-on, harassing, or misogynistic small talk that is normal for rides coming out of strip clubs.  The ride was fairly long and they’re chatting with themselves pretty boisterously.  The man in the front seat is maintaining respectful small-talk with me, so when I heard “I’d suck your dick for a million dollars!” from the man behind me it came as an abrupt shift in conversation to me.  He was speaking to the man sitting next to him, who replied, “I wouldn’t!  I would not suck your dick for a million dollars!”

The first man becomes incredulous, “WHY NOT?! Continue reading →

Posted on March 20, 2014 by yellowandblackmail | Leave a comment

Spring Fever is coming.

Posted on February 27, 2014 by yellowandblackmail

Sometimes it’s not all bad.

I’ve been working my butt off the last couple weeks to save up for bills and taking a week off to visit friends out-of-state, picking up driving and phone answering shifts as they became available.  It’s been a long Winter already and this made it feel like it would never end.  February lasts FOREVER.  Everyone on the road is cranky, everyone walking down the street is cranky, everyone who doesn’t have alcohol in their hand is cranky.

People are even starting to act dangerously because of it. Continue reading →

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Taxi apps

Posted on February 18, 2014 by yellowandblackmail

There are a couple phone apps out there that are advertising how you could make up to $20 per hour by giving rides to people in your personal car.

In theory, this is great!  In practice, not so much.  The owners of these apps are in it for the short term.  They want to bleed the consumers and drivers for a short time and split when things turn sour, and I think that time might already be upon us.  There’s a court case currently about how a driver that was logged into an app (but not loaded with a passenger) hit and killed a child.  I discussed this with someone on social media about how it was clearly the driver’s fault for hitting the child, but it was the company’s fault for not covering the driver with liability insurance.  I personally believe the media coverage of this case prompted the other prominent taxi app to start Continue reading →

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The cure for everything is a Personal Day.

Posted on January 29, 2014 by yellowandblackmail

I had an incredibly long weekend.  It started pretty good but ended up spiraling down into a pit of despair.  I ended up feeling defeated and unwilling to fight back against the onslaught of negativity.  I’m feeling MUCH better now, after a couple high-quality beers, hot bubble bath, and a full day off of relaxing cooking.  I think it is probably for the best that I’m writing this entry now instead of fresh off of the weekend.

Friday was the first day of my work week and it was fairly uneventful until toward the end of the evening.  People were happy, drunk, and relatively easy to deal with. Continue reading →

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