Brassy

Well that was one of the hardest weekends I’ve ever done, primarily due to the incessant rain rather than passenger issues. Any more rain and we’ll be building Arks.

The atrocious weather demanded 100% concentration for the full shifts necessitating many more breaks than usual in order to stay alert. This resulted in extended finishing times – 4am this morning and 5am Sunday.  

Still, I couldn’t jag a decent blog tale though to be honest, didn’t try that hard such were the demanding road conditions. One slip could mean a six month license suspension.

A recurring passenger theme of late is the number of young women openly talking in mixed company about getting laid. I don’t know if it’s the drink or drugs but boy, there’s some hungry gals in this town. And it’s not about love or romance but straight-out plumbing.

At the same time there were heaps of eligible blokes this weekend catching cabs to high-class brothels prepared to pay up to $500 for the same service. One admitted to spending all day drinking booze and browsing online porn only to develop cabin fever of the Tiger Woods variety. Another fella joked how after almost choking on two Viagras he’d gotten a stiff neck. Boom-boom.

A sixteen year old girl from the Central Coast first climbed in the back seat then immediately requested, "Do you mind if I sit in the front with you?" This momentarily spooked me and my first instinct was to trigger the record button on the phone before remembering a recent undertaking given to the authorities. O for continuous camera surveillance like that in bus and trains. 

Yet I need not have worried for she was just being naive in that country way displayed by kids on a visit to the big smoke. “It doesn’t feel right back there,” she chirped and proceeded to report on her provincial world.

One might be surprised, or not, on the amount of drug dealing at her school involving ‘mainly speed, eccies and weed’. And cigarette smoking is pretty much commonplace in the playground. Times certainly have changed in schools from the swinging sixties.

Speaking of the new order brings to mind another wide-eyed, Wollongong kid recently heading into town with mates. Upon spotting some hot girls walking along Oxford Street he wound down the window and sledged them. Instead of the old style, ‘Hey, show us ya tits’, it was “Hey, show us where ya daddy touched ya!”. Clearly an appalling remark.

Speaking of goats, here's two in Kings Cross yesterday.

Comments

[Lee]

Wow! It's been 18 months since last I blogged...it's good to see some friendly faces are still around! Some have left to shores unknown, I've discovered upon my return!

[adrian]

Hi Lee, nice to hear from you again. Welcome back.

[crjc]

Ygh. Tell me about it.

Caught my 13 yr old step-daughter smoking the other day.

[Lee]

Thanks, Adrian. :)

[manlycabbie]

i'v noticed this about young ladies for some time now,getting groups of them in the cab all taking about who they would like to shag who's good and how big their dick is(and they say size doesn't count yea right)i don't know why you would be wary of a girl wanting to sit up front adrian you don;t look sleazie.

[Lee]

I worry about the kids of today. Their seemingly lack of respect for all things/people is like a rampant virus; a virus for which there is no antidote.

It goes back to parental control (or lack thereof). Good, solid values seem to be the minority...and this is a scary thing.

Discipline and respect have flown out the door.

The law courts are too lenient on young offenders. My answer to that is give the young offenders a long weekend in Afghanistan with our troops and if that doesn't cure them up...next time it's a month's holiday over there!

[Paul the cab driver]

Interesting blog. I drive a taxi in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, and I can relate to a lot of what you are saying about the weather. We have a desert climate here, and do not get much rain, but when we do, it comes in torrents. And it is very tiring to drive in. Between the slick streets, and the fools who think they can stop a pickup truck on a dime in the rain, it is very fatiguing. Take a break? I'd rather stay at home, thank you very much.
In Phoenix, we do not have a taxi and limo commission as they do apparently in your section of Australia (and most large USA cities). It is totally free market. As long as you have insurance and a meter that matches your posted rates, you can have your own cab business. So you do not have to worry here about a minor wreck causing a 6 month suspension. It will drive your insurance rates way up though. It must make it that much more nerve wracking driving a taxi in rain in Australia.
I drive days, so I don't get a lot of young folk out cruising for dates like you are getting, but I can agree that the morality of our youth has definitely shifted to the negative. I think it is a cultural thing. The West is slowly committing suicide.

[Crystal Solandreas]

Hi Adrian, you've got some very nice pieces up here. Did you know that there's a cabbie singing competition called Cabbie-oke at Sydney and Melbourne? Its quite interesting and there are good prizes on offer. You can check out details at their site if interested.