Archive for the ‘Back of the cab’ Category

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Clara Mouriz

I picked up this young lady from Kings x stn and took her to Crawford st junc Gloucester pl. A very chatty young lady, one of the questions she asks me was how’s business my reply was not that brilliant with which she would reply I know how you feel it’s pretty much the same [...]

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Stig Anderson

I picked up John Anderson from the B.M.I. awards and took him home to the Kings Road, on our way there we got chatting, I asked him what the award was for, he told me it was for Dancing- Queen one of many records of which his late Grandfather wrote for ABBA.
That being Stig Anderson

Be [...]

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Harry Redknapp

Going back a while I picked up Harry redknapp and took him home to Hornchurch on the way there we where having a chat and Derek calls me, what a coincident being he is a Big Hammers fan. I can’t remember why Derek called but I told him that Harry was in the back [...]

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Kings Cross to being cross

Sometimes you pick up a fare and you just know it’s going to go wrong.
I picked up this woman from Kings Cross station and she asked to go to Sussex Way. She even tells me it’s in N7. I didn’t know there was a Sussex Way in N7 so I did a check on the [...]

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All in a days work

I picked up a young Lady in the city going to city airport on a pre-booked job.  she said she wanted to go to Kensington not the airport as she had forgotten her passport. As you can imagine she was getting worked up about missing her flight. When I pulled away I asked her what [...]

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Whatever the weather

I know it’s not the most interesting subject. But you’ve got to admit it, it affects us all, to be honest I wouldn’t have bought my bloddy BBQ if I knew it was going to rain all Summer.
I picked up Piers Corbyn of weatheraction.com he told me he predicted our crappy weather [...]

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Peter Sallis

What a nice guy Peter Sallis is remember him ? “Last of the summer wine” etc.
I picked him up from Judd st, took him home to Hyde pk sq . Very easy to recognize and his voice was a dead givaway.