schlockumantries

cruising up on first ave I saw a woman, hand stretched and another cab about to miss her and yes he did. I pulled in front of her, she said make a left we are going to union sq, 14th & park ave. every ave going down was a mess tonight. construction and some newly hired guy messing up manhattan knocking down lanes and with fewer lanes guess what you will have? traffic jams what else.she talked about the yesterday's storm and quickly we were talking about internet and how wonderful it is. She makes movies/films and has a wonderfull online presence at youtube. she hasnt blogged in a while but she did wonderfull jobs with her videos. check her work out at
www.youtube.com/SCHLOCKUMENTARIES
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111 & Amsterdam ave

Confused and making you confuse

new york city has aroun 8 million peoples and its the biggest mixture of peoples from different back ground race nationalities and countries. so a few ppls learn english fast and a few learn it slow. some fluent enough and some not so good at speaking their hearts out.
so I had an old french couple from jfk. they told me 0000 st in brooklyn. I asked them address and they said remsen between 0000 and 0000 I asked them again and they handed me a piece of paper. it read

for taxi driver

hi
please bring us to 0000 remsen st between clinton st and court st
many thanks.

i was glad some body asked them to print this paper out and hadn it over to the cab driver but was even more pleased with that little word "many thanks" cab drivers care about being respected the most.

this reminds me of 2 more incidents well both of them are bad, One I had to fight in TLC court will write about later on but the second one was again from jfk and it was a russian old couple with most probably their grand child

after our usually greetings exchange the guy went on: e7 between 00 and 00
me: in manhattan?
him: what?
me: you are going to manhattan?
him: brooklyn
me: how you wana go?
him: what?
me: how would you like to go?
him and his wife: e7 between this and that
me: ok you take BQE?
him: yes
me: ok BQE to what exit?
him: ocean parkway

now I am drving once I passed first exit to belt parkway off of van wyck express way the guy said: you missed that
me: missed what?
him: verrazano bridge.
me: what verrazano bridge?
him: I told you verrazano bridge
me: ok you can go to verrazan bridge from BQE too why didnt you tell me
him: I told you ok

now I try at frist not to indulge into a heated conversation untill they keep pushing to I just made a u turn and went back to belt parkway. I took 3rd exit and made a u turn which would have been 0.2 miles.

once at his destination he didnt pay me. went out and knocked the trunk so I poped it. since he was an old man helped him unloading all of his luggage. he came back and asked me how much?
me: 42 dollars.
him: how is this much?
me: I dont know its on meter.
him: I am not going to pay this.
me: what?
him: I am going to pay you 10 dollar less.
me: ok listen either pay this money or call the police, you will pay this money and meter will keep runing if you wait for police and still you will pay me my money.
him: why call police? becoz you did wrong?
me: I didnt do anything wrong you gave me wrong directions now what you wana do pay or police?

he handed me a 100 dollar bill and said I dont have change so break this. I know some time peoples really dont have change so I dont mind breaking bills as long as I check them I checked the bill and gave him 58 dollars back. with no tip and thanks he went his way and I went back to jfk. do I need to mention it was my frist job around 4 on a friday afternoon?




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so sweet

I got 2 couples they were going down town. on their way one of the girl from the rear seat told his boy friend that he should call his sister, he called and put it on speaker. it went straight to voice mail.
the sweet part of the voice mail greeting was that the girl (my passenger' sister) and her boyfriend had this greeting saved together like they would say a few words after each other. like

girl: hi this is jenny
boy: & greg
girl: we are not available
boy: pls leave us your name & number
girl: and we will get back to you as soon as possible
boy: thanks

but even sweeter part was that how my passenger and his girl friend wished his sister a happy birthday they did the same one sentence after each other and then said happy birthday together.

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Paint job

Getting my car a paint Gona look like new, this guy highly
recommended, love his job (still have to c when he is done) but he
erased the last paint n that matters a lot coz if u just paint then it
wear off after a while n you are back to body shop.

Horse on the wall

The Back Up Plan

liked the light comedy movie but didnt know americans freak out like that if they know they are going to have a baby. seems its different than east. anyway it was a nice time pass. rate it 7/10.
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