Every
few days I get one of these.
These
rides are the worst. We get these
pickups from the local hospital to pick up one of the bums from San Diego. For some reason they cart them over
here to Cortez. When we get them
they always smell like shit, have no money, and are usually still half in the
bag. Often times they have pissed
their pants. Often times they are
beaten up and you have to worry about your seats getting stained with a range
of fluids. They have been known to
throw up in the cars of other taxi drivers.
Since
they have no money the hospital gives us a voucher to take them to a
predetermined destination. Usually
Chicano Park. A bum dumping ground
of sorts. The only tip that I get
is from other drivers – “Try to avoid these rides, they suck.” Amen brother!
Sometimes
they want to go to another destination, which we don’t do. Since the hospital is paying for what
they want we go with what they tell us.
Sometimes the bums get surly and bark (and grunt) orders. Usually they’re unintelligible. After picking up one belligerent bum
after another the rides from the sailors start looking pretty rosy.
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