Never trust your phone...

 

Day 6

This blog entry will be date stamped as The Day Before.  The Day Before what?  Tomorrow, it is forcasted that Chicago will receive 18-24 inches of snow.  This could surpass the Blizzard of 67’ in size.  The south side of the city and northwest Indiana could also see additional snow as a gift from Mother Nature known “lake effect snow.”  Lake effect snow is the result of moisture coming off of Lake Michigan.

Tonight I am driving one of two minivans owned by the cab company.  No Audi for me tonight.  I would like to act disappointed, but this thing is comfortable!  I know that the minivan is to car design the way the bowl cut is to hairstyling. But I must say, both are quite practical.

Tonight I drove a young man from a very expensive restaurant to a complete dump of a bar in Stone Park, Illinois.  Many of you understand that there is little left in Stone Park since all of the adult entertainment establishments were “moved out.”  I asked him if he worked at the fancy restaurant.  “No,” he said. “My friend works in the kitchen and brings me free food while I sit at the bar.”  Not a surprise he needed a lift to Stone Park 20 minutes away.  “I know the bartender there.  She is 63, but really nice and brings me a few free drinks.”  He must have assumed that I knew that most 63-yr-old women are not very nice.

Bad night for Customer #2;  His car would not start when leaving work. He was excited to hear our per mile rates.  He said his place is about a mile away.  He told me where it was, and I said it was more like 8 miles.  "But my phone GPS says its about a mile."  "Well your phone is stupid," I didn't say.   Bad month for Customer #2; He had a falling out with family and is staying in a crappy motel.  Bad night for Customer #2.  We stopped at McDonalds and he did not have enough money for his 20-piece nugget meal.  I got a 99 cent coffee.  Good night for me.  After we drove the actual 10.2 miles to his crap motel, he said, "I still think that was about a mile and you might be ripping me off."  Stay in school kids.  Don't do drugs.

One of my last thoughts as I drove back to the garage was about cabs and the movies.  Stay tuned for those thoughts. 

Note:  “Stay tuned” is a phrase we will have to explain to the Ipod Generation.  They do not listen to the radio.