Tag: taxi cab transportation

Isn’t She Lovely

This past Tuesday I had a surprise evening for my lovely wife. It happened quite unexpectedly. I received VIP tickets for both of us to go see and meet Stevie Wonder in concert. I started out the day picking up a customer at the five star hotel and resort, Keswick Hall. I am one of their preferred transportation and taxi drivers.…

Named Favorite Taxi Blog

Thank you Taxi Fare Finder for including Cab Chronicles in your list as being one of your favorite taxi blogs. Now the blog is implemented here on this page. You can see Taxi Fare Finder’s list of favorite taxi blogs and what makes them unique here. As my blog introduction states, “Everyone who jumps in my cab has a story to tell,…

Selfie With Gazzo

Here I am with Gazzo doing a selfie with him as I dropped him off at the Charlottesville airport. I wouldn’t have known him if it were not to ask almost all my customers the question, “What brings you to Charlottesville?” He said he performed with Kap Slap the night before. It just so happens my daughter was there that…

“No, you’re weak!”

“Make that light!,” he yelled, as it was about to turn red. At the time, I didn’t have it in me to speed up and go through it. So I stopped. “You’re weak!,” the customer said. When the light turned green, we passed through the intersection and around the corner a police officer was sitting there.

I Wept Last Night

Late afternoon, my dispatcher sent me to pick up a woman and said she needed to go to a clinic. It was to get an abortion. I froze, paused, and prayed and said, “where is she?” I could have not taken the assignment but felt the need to do my job as a taxi driver with the task of being…