The Award For Most Annoying Taxi Passenger Goes To…..

I recently saw a humorous post on the website of The Taxi Centre looking at the most expensive (metaphorical) taxi fares that football clubs have had to pay for their outgoing managers! It got me thinking about my own time in cabs over the years.

Imagine the scene a group of 18/19-year-old college girls on a night out at their favourite club in town. At the end of an epic night of dancing (and they were always epic nights), they ring for a taxi to take them home. They wait for what seems like forever for their ride home when they hear the angelic calls of… “Taxi for Louise”… the music to any drunken angel’s ears I can tell you.

We all clamber in the taxi and who should we notice is taking us home but our favourite taxi driver Sean! He was awesome, although I’m not sure he thought the same of the giggling gaggle of college girls who he always ended up with when they were drunk on a Friday or Saturday night.

But to Sean’s credit and probably the reason why we loved it when he took us home was that he was polite and laughed at our jokes and he even had a nickname for me… Zippy (how rude eh?) but the reason for my nickname was because I used to talk and talk and talk and talk… I could talk for England when I was drunk (still can if I’m honest) and I would always say hi to him then proceed with the same questions “Have you been busy?” and “What time you on till?” – if you’re a Peter Kay fan I’m almost certain he made his joke by sharing a taxi ride with us!! In case you have no idea what I’m talking about I have shared the video with you below. It still makes me giggle and the last time I watched Peter Kay with my friends they all had a good old laugh saying he was referring to me – it’s a good job I love my friends I can tell you!!