Having done a few fares I arrived back on the taxi rank at 23.45 (11.45pm) and noticed that the other cabs were not ‘pulling forward’ as usual and leaving a three car space at the front of the rank. Getting out for a ciggie it became clear why ….. lying on the pavement at the front was a 50 something woman, well dressed in a trouser suit, and three other people. One man who was about 60 and very drunk (husband I assume) was trying to lift his wife to her feet but being two sheets to the wind himself made a poor show and kept falling over. This proved amusing in its self but then one of the other people came to help and that made my night.
This lady helper tried her best but could not move the unconscious one who had now become like a large bag of jelly and shouted at the husband for letting his wife get into this state. The two tried together to raise the jelly bag to no avail and the helper then vented her opinions on the husband. He took offence at this and started swearing at her which was a big mistake. With one fluid movement she swung her large handbag and caught him across the side of the head which sent him onto his backside with the look of a startled rabbit. She then explained in no uncertain terms that no man would speak to her like that and what he could do to himself (which involved placing things in certain orifices). She then went and sat on our ‘wailing wall’ and left him lying beside his wife on the pavement.
I took another fare after this but when I got back the bag of jelly was still lying peacefully on the ground, the helper was still sitting on the wall and the husband was still trying to lift his wife and falling over each time he tried. Someone then ruined the cabaret by phoning for an ambulance as by now the bag of jelly was entering the coma state and the paramedics rolled her onto a streatcher and loaded her into the ambulance. And so the show ended.
I think that people who get into this state and have to have an ambulance called should have to pay for the medical treatment. Why should the tax payer cover the cost of their stupidity!!
On a lighter note : I’m off to Australia for a month soon so I hope I don’t get withdrawal symptoms due to not having my ‘fix’ of taxi life! Do you think the Aussies would let me drive for a night just incase? Maybe I could spend a night in the bush with some wild animals just to make me feel at home!!
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