Miturbin S Durty

For the last week I have been sick with strep throat which I caught from my wife and did not work. That's not to say I have had nothing taxi related happen. I am now looking for another garage. Apparently me whacking out the mirror and then getting sick 2 days later pissed the owner off, so we had some not so nice words between us and here I am. Gimme a fucking break! Is this whole business filled with fucking scumbags from top to bottom?

People treat cabbies like shit for the most part but these guys are fucking hard working guys getting dicked around from every direction, the NYPD, the TLC, and any other agency that can will fuck a cab driver over in a second. Ask a cabbie if he ever gets just 1 ticket when he's stopped for a minor violation. I guarantee his last stop got him at least 4 tickets. All this shit and to have some fucking dickhead get pissed because I got sick and he wasn't going to get his measly lease fee for the night. The guy owns 100+ cabs, for anyone who doesn't know each one of those medallions is worth about $1,000,000. That's right, it's not a fucking typo, A COOL MIL!!! The last auction the top 5 bids were 1.2 mil!!! So this fucking asshole who has $100,000,000 in cars wants to break my balls over a fucking mirror and getting sick. Fuck him, fuck him in his ass hard!!! Like he gives me health insurance or something, cabbies get BALLS. You want health insurance, pay for it!! You want disability, fucking pay for it yourself.

So now that I got that out of my system, and am feeling better I decided to get my ducks in a row and then look for a garage again. I can still go back to the one I worked at on my 1st night. I left there on good terms to try this place. Today, I drove out to New Jersey to have a friend do some work on my old piece of shit car. I saved a ton on the labor and my friend has no idea just how much I appreciate it. It went easier than we could have ever hoped for except the parts that were supposed to be there weren't so I decided to leave the car there and train it back to Queens. This seemed to take forever and the NJ Transit train was like a meat locker but I finally get back to NYC and into the subway.

I got off the train at 71/Continental Ave, not my normal stop but I figured I could catch a taxi there and go home instead of waiting for a bus after 2 hours on trains. Of course there isn't a yellow cab to be seen but plenty of gypsy cabs, which I fucking abhor. These guys are illegally picking up street passengers and usually charging way higher prices than they should, as well as stealing business from legitimate taxi drivers. All of them waiting in the taxi stand meant only for yellow cabs and one scummier than the next. I've told my wife to not take gypsy cabs for the longest time, there are stories of women being assaulted by some of these dirtbags.

I waited a few minutes ignoring them when they ask if I want a ride. After a few minutes I decide I'm going to breakdown and take one of them so I ask him "how much?" Of course the guy says $10 which is ridiculous, I could've walked it in 20 minutes (a bit over a mile) but was feeling too lazy for that. So I basically told the guy to fuck off, not quite that rude but close. As you can see I'm just a ray of sunshine when I get sick. As this ends, I see a yellow cab with his light on and get ready to hail him when a Russian gypsy cab driver starts asking me how much I want to pay. I tell him, I can't stand gypsy cabs so if I don't get a yellow I'm walking. Of course as the taxi sits at the red light and I wait for him someone else gets in and I'm beat for a cab. The Russian guy was a persistent fucker so I told him $6 which is still high compared to a yellow cab and he agreed. Laziness and sickness trumps principles this time. The Russian swore I took him because he was the only guy without a turban, what a fucking douchebag! I told him that he couldn't be more wrong, it because they are too stupid to realize that they could be making a quick $8 and be back in 8 minutes for another fare instead of sitting there trying to rip people off. I can't see these guys making the same money as a yellow cab driver and they're risking huge tickets doing it their way. Fucking morons!

Thank God and baby jeebus that the ride was a whole 4 minutes long, I hate most people and this guy stood out as a BDIU contestant. I got home and promptly had a fight with the wife, which we resolved with no bloodshed :). Once I get my car repairs finished I figure I'll get back to my part time driving and add to this tomfuckery I've started here.