Tough Guy

Yesterday I kicked off the shift by heading to a rugby league fixture at Olympic Stadium - South Sydney vs Parramatta. Within minutes I’d collected a fare to Redfern, bingo ! Way to go on a quiet Sunday afternoon, forty bucks, thanks very much.

The passenger, a fella around thirty years old with ‘one red eye and one green eye, mate’, was a tough guy in the hard working class tradition of South Sydney. Get a result ?", I asked. "Too bloody right," he said. "Put five grand on the Bunnies at $1.75." "What about yesterday," I asked, "did you jag the double with the election ?" "Phfft ! Wouldn’t waste my time backing those idiots." "But aren't you a Labor man ?" "...‘ken oath - 'dem Libs cancelled remissions."

(A final Cabpoll from last night's shift will be posted today on the ninemsn election page)