Retribution.
It
is not often that I am able to stick it to the man, or woman in this case –
Catherine. But today I did.
For
years now Catherine has been STEALING rides with her competing charter/livery vehicles, rides that rightfully belong to us. Every once in a while we get our revenge.
Today
I heard the dispatch frantically calling one of the livery vehicles requesting
them to come back to Cortez to pick up a passenger. These are more often than not good rides, and unfortunately they are
more often that not our rides. I
knew that I was only a few minutes from the Marriot, and would be able to
arrive much quicker than the livery.
As
I drove up I saw a couple with luggage that needed a ride to the airport. They seemed surprised and admitted that
they had thought a van was coming (all of our livery vehicles are Chevy Astro
van’s). In this sense they were
correct. They didn’t mind. Then they informed me that they were
told that the ride would only be $20.
I told them that would be fine.
I would have picked them up for $5 and taken a loss just to keep that
money out of Catherine’s greedy little soiled pockets in her grubby men’s sized
jeans.
They
were a nice couple, going back to Phoenix. They gave a nice tip - $10, and were on their way. I could have radioed the office and let
them know that there had been a mistake and I had “accidentally” picked up a
party that had called for a livery, but what fun would that be. I let the livery drive all the way from
the airport and fumble around at the hotel looking for the customers in vain. A small victory for me, although it
doesn’t even begin to make up for the years of thievery that Catherine has
participated in.
Shame
on you Catherine, you little troll, shame on you.
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