Cabbies Fight Back
There’s a blog for everything. Really, I swear it. Enter The Blank Top Cab Chronicles. It’s a dispatcher at one of the Arlington Cab Companies, and it’s absolutely high comedy at its finest:
ME: Well, ma’am, the truth is that I’m pretty sure there’s nothing the slightest bit illegal about parking a car with up to date tags and registration on a public road. Sorry.
LADY: Huh. Well then maybe I’ll just take his license plates off and tell the police it’s abandoned and have them tow it.
ME: Interesting idea. That’s probably a felony, but go for it if it’s really pissing you off that much.
LADY: Maybe I will.
Wow. People are crazy. But this blog is hysterical.
I once knew someone who got pissed because folks were parking in front of his house. He stole a “no parking” sign, planted it by the curb and called the cops. Sure enough, the cars got towed.
I think a lot of folks think they own the road in front of their house. Earlier this year I came home to find a nasty note taped to the window of my POS 1986 Blazer II I used to haul things to and from the hardware store. I’d parked it a few doors down from my house because someone was parked in front of mine.
The homeowner I was parked in front of left a note to the effect of they were having people over that evening, could I move ‘this vehicle.’ I laughed and moved it to an open space in front of my house… since the date of the dinner party had already come and gone.
I feel a little bad about writing BLOW ME on the note and throwing it in their mailbox, but only because it’s a federal offense…