They knew me ….. So what?

I had the misfortune to run into some old school classmates this morning. I say misfortune as they wanted to go a long way and I had to endure the “Do you remembers” apart from the money I would have preferred a short fare. Sorry no I don’t remember as when I left school and that whole decade of my life I tried to forget. I even went as far as not working the area where I used to live and go to school for the first 2 to 3 yrs that I drove cabs.

The job was a 2 drop off deal and at the first drop I notice the front seat guy who is getting out has left his drink bottle on the floor. I let him drink it cause I didn’t want to cause a scene and it was only water and now he’s going to litter my cab with it. Even though he knows me from school which seems to have made his day. Normally I wouldn’t have said anything but I decided to reach over and throw it out as he closed the door. He grabs it and hurls it back in hitting his mate in the head in the process. Later after dropping guy number 2 I find the bottle stuffed in the back pocket of the drivers seat.

Maybe I’m strange but it really pisses me off when people treat my cab as a garbage dump. In this case not that I cared worth a hoot, the guys that did it knew me and it still counted for zero. Hell I’ve had people leave open beer bottles on the floor of the cab standing up half full of beer so as soon as I take off they will go flying and stink the car out necessitating time off the road to clean it up and the smell never goes away straight away.

I guess thats why I now have a no tolerance attitude to food or drink of any kind and on the few rare occasions I let my guard down they remind me why I shouldn’t have bothered.