I took this photo about 10:00 AM last Thursday, sorry but my camera wasn't big enough to get all of the cabs in it. I spoke to a few of the guys and they all said the same thing mostly, waiting for maybe a trip to St. Pete Beach. I thought what if they got a trip to the Hilton on Lois. Or worse to one of those office buildings on Westshore.I remember one instance I got a call at the Howard Johnson on Dale Mabry, near the Mons Venus. These nice older folks needed to go to a cruise ship at Port Manatte, that is south on US41. At that time the fare was around 90.00, works for me. This was on a Sunday. After I found the port and unloaded their luggage this guy who must have been working there asked me if I was going back to Tampa, I almost said something cute like "heres your sign" but instead said yes I am in a very nice voice. He said these four girls needed to get to Tampa International but only had 75.00 and the previous two cab wouldn't take them. I told him to get them and we would go. I have no idea why the other cabs wouldn't take them, they had to go back anyway. Of course that doesn't happen to often.
The next morning I picked up this kid in south Tampa in a nice area and took him to town and country. I was at the light at George and Memorial and out the back door he went. I haven't seen that kid since. So it isn't all good. But that hasn't happened to oftain. I always tried to be careful.
The answers to the last question about the 1960 World Series in the 7th game, not the winning home run but there were no strike outs recorded by either team. The other answer is in 1944 the Dodgers, Yankees and Giants played a 6 inning game, each team played 2 innings. The score was Dodgers 5, Yankees 1 and Giants zip. This was for War Bonds. I don't how they did it. But I think that UC123 does. If it happened in New York he knows. Be careful out there. UC157 Larry
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I use to work at the airport in Columbia SC and in Charlotte NC before moving back to St. Pete and usually hated myself for sitting in that line. The dispatchers called airport drivers "Airport Sweethearts". We would wait up to 2 hours and sometimes a UPS pilot would come out to go to the other side of the Airport. 5 dollar minimum. After a few trips like that I'd be home getting a belly full of beer. Had plenty of good trips as well, but always seemed to do better on the streets. Anyway, good luck to all those "Airport Sweethearts". And luck is all it takes working the airport. Lots of them cant work the streets or speak good enough english to work with a dispatcher. These GPS Navigation toys have taken away years of knowledge we old pros have accumulated over the years. I bought a Garmin Nuvi 200W for 200 bucks and used it for the first time yesterday on a trip from downtown St. Pete to a street in WestChase. I think it was Greenhedges. 70.25 on the meter and he gave me 80. Dropped him at 7:00 and headed home, and ended up with a belly full of beer again. Imagine that. Keep up the good work Tom and Larry
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