Saturday 22 May 2010

Rearview or rearend?



I can't remember the last time I went out on a Saturday night, what with it being a taxi driver's busiest night. But needs must, it was my brothers stag night and as his best man I was tasked with; ensuring that he had a good time (got pissed) and getting him home safely. Anyway if I can say so, I believe that I succeeded on both counts.

What was interesting was getting into a taxi at approx 3am this morning. Instead of looking in horror at the thing (my brother) that was shovelled inside the cab, this time I was doing the shovelling. Does this give me a better insight into how I perceive my night-time customers? Unfortunately not. Why? Because I paid extra; took him home safely through the front door and then asked the driver take me home.

Anyway forgetting all that boring stuff......

Although I have not posted for a while, I have been following Thanet's blogs with interest during the last year and a half. I was disturbed about Micheal's comments http://http//thanetonline.blogspot.com/2010/05/thanet-blogs-and-some-ramsgate-pictures.html regarding the lack of bloggers in Thanet, and I felt the need to dust of my blogger password.

As always though I will be hoping that Chinese planes will be skimming the roof of a new hotel on the old pleasurama site at Ramgate, that the Turner Centre and a re-vamped Dreamland kickstarts the regeneration of Margate. Also that Thanet will offer decent jobs for its working population and cease to become a Londoner's retirement village, where the only jobs available to the locals is wiping OAP's arses.





7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most of the Londoners I know who have moved here are in their 30s and 40s and have done more to provide work for arseholes like you than you could ever have imagined in your wildest Thanet wet dream.

You sound so old and out of touch that it won't be long before you'll be grateful for someone to wipe your arse for you.

Rear view mirror said...

anon 12:04

Judging by the amount of care homes in Thanet, they have probably moved down here to work in one for the min wage.

As a self-confessed grade 1 arsehole, I am qualified to suggest that you are an arsewipe!

Don Wood said...

RVM when's your brother getting cut and carried?
I used to drive a cab and I know what you mean about he horror of seeing some who get in the back drunk.

Don Wood said...

forgot to welcome you back, I just looked the last comment I made on your blog was 2008. Where has that time gone?

Rear view mirror said...

Couple of weeks I hope, his wife to be is still making him suffer for having a good stagnight ;-)

Thanks for the welcome, I hope I can contribute something to the community.

Anonymous said...

Welcome back RVM

Your Thanet cabbie colleague Malcolm Hussey is a brave man and Bertie Biggles allowed me to guest blog to pay tribute to him.

(David O'LEARY murder case 1st March 2008)

Tony Flaig said...

Good to see you back, I love people like 12:04 they make you feel better about those who matter