GAS PRICE

Well drivers that looks better. But in order to get the $3.40 you have to buy a $50.00 gas card from Radiant. They give you a $1.00 back so you are only paying $49.00 but you get $50.00 worth of gas. I have been thinking of some of my older fares. The first one really wasn't a live person, all of us driver who worked stand 52, remember the blood runs. We would either get the blood samples from St. Joe and take them to Kincade, I believe it has changed its name a few times. The actual trip, milage wise was less than a mile. dBut you had to park, walk to the elevator, go to the basement and give them the blood viles. Sometimes it would be just the reverse. All in all it usualy took about 15 to 20 minutes, depending on how fast you walked. All of this for $4.00. Another fare comes to mind, there were 3 ladies that lived at the Moon River Apartments. The usually called five days a week. In the beginning the fare ran about $6.00 but the kicker was that they lived upstairs and would come down one at a time, one would get in and then I would have to wait for the other two. After this happened a few times, I thought piss on this. When the first one got in the cab I turned the meter on. I told them time is money. They paid me and hurried up the next time and from than on. Finally the Indians from Arbour Ponds on Dale Mabry, just south Columbus. They went $5.25 worth, that wasn't the problem, one would call and we would have to go to two or three apartments. United has the saying one pays the same as four. However, each one of them would call for a cab, whoever got there would get all of them, than the next cab would get a "NO SHOW", wasted time and gas. Finally we talked the dispatcher into flagging it. Inotherwords, we would know there was a fare waiting in front of the complex. Those Indian folks didn't like it much, for sometime they would have to wait a long time. But I used to tell them it was their own fault. Not only that they didn't tip. United Cab 157 Larry

DE' PLANE BOSS, DE PLANE

This is the plane that Obama took the American Flag off the tail. $500,000 to redue the inside. I wonder how many trips to St. Pete, in my good ole 157 in order to make that. Now he has picked a running mate that can't even write his own speachs. If by some uncanny way that he is elected well I had better not comment on that. UC157 Larry

DISGRACE!!!!

I don't think I need to add anything to the below information.




Subj: Is This a Disgrace?


Obama The Patriot - Removes American Flag From His PlaneThe Patriot Room Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:11:07 AM by Bill DuprayBarack Obama recently finished a $500,000 total overhaul of his 757. And as part of the new design, he decided to remove the American flag from the tail...What American running for President of the United States would remove the symbol of his country? And worse, he replaced the flag with it with a symbol of himself...

More on the WTC

Just to follow up on Larry's post, just after 9-11 lots of e-mail's where flying around, many where totally off the wall but some where believable.

I don't know if it is true or not, but this is how I remember it.

An Islamic High School Student in a school near the East River in Brooklyn was looking out the window of the school.

When the teacher came over to see what he was looking at, the student asked do you see those two very tall buildings (WTC), and the teacher said yes, the student told him soon you won't see them any more.

This is alleged to have happened on Friday 9-7-01.

I know for a fact a few blocks from this school is a very militant mosque, which was involved in the bombing of the World Trade Center in the 90's.

To Lon

I tried to find you on the web site but could not, please contact me at gentom727@gmail.com tks. Tom

AL EAST Chronicles

At this point many including myself being a Yankee fan, thought the Rays would have cracked and dropped out of the race.

Many of the so called national pundits predicted the quick fall of the rays by mid August or earlier, but the Rays keep getting great pitching and defense and enough runs to win one game after another.

For most of the season the Rays where just about injury free, up until about 2 weeks when 3 of there front line players went down (Evan Longoria, Carl Crawford and Troy Percival).

Despite all this and the Problems with BJ Upton the Rays have kept things going, I and all Rays fans received huge surprise with the return of Rocco Baldelli.

Who is the surprise of the year for the Rays, when I heard about his muscular problems in the spring, I am no doctor, but it sounded very much like Lou Gehrig's Disease, which is life threatening and has no known cure.

Since Rocco's return he is hitting .308 with 2 hr's and 4 rbi's in 8 games

September is just around the corner and if the Rays are going to fall they will fall to the Schedule of September, it is a killer 26 games in 27 days and all but 7 games with top teams.

It all starts with the Yanks on the 2ed at the Trop for 3 games, then the Rays go on the road to Toronto for 3 with the Jays, the Rays then head to Boston for 3 with the Sox. After there only day off in the stretch on the 11th, they then they head to NY for 3 with the Yanks, its then 3 in Minneapolis with the Twins.

After all that its home with 3 games with the O's and 4 with the Tigers.

If the Rays finish the road trip, in 1st place, not only do I think they will make the playoffs I think they will go deep into them.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

A man who survived the terrorist attack on 9-11, as he worked in the WTC, noticed that when he passed the Millenium Hotel there were no cabs in the circle. He claims that normally the circle is full of cabs.
Further, it is said that the Ferry terminals in South Manhattan had no cabs waiting to take folks to work. It is suggested that the middle eastern cab drivers, who normally work that area, got non-specific information to avoid the area that morning.
No proof nor will there ever be but this is just food for thought.
My Dodgers lost but the Rays did their thing again, come from behind again, whipping the White Sox, 5-3. They have opened up a 5 1/2 game lead over the Red Sox. Over the Yankee's , too many games to count.

The other shoe falls at last

Its been all over the local news the last two days, it seems the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission has "lost" approximately $400,000 from a contingency fund.

The best part of all this no one knows if it happened before or after Greg Cox was fired er quit, he was facing accusations of lax financial oversight.

It seems Mr Cox acquired $12,000 in what is called unauthorized allowance pay, which was forgiven as part of his severance package, along with three months of his pay which was $25,298, don't we wish we received that from our cab company when we leave?

The County Commissioners are promising an investigation, as we all know they are politicians, I can only hope they keep this promise better then there campaign promises, only time will tell.

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE WITH THIS GUY?

I will tell the second story at a later date. By the way I was born and raised in L.A.


Taxi Horror Stories
Well, I have two taxi horror stories to relate. Once, in L.A., a shuttle driver promised me that he would get me to my hotel in under 20 minutes from LAX. During early rush-hour traffic, he realized that he wouldn't be able to both keep his promise and obey conventional traffic ordinances. He not only ran red lights, failed to stop for pedestrians in the street (cause, you know, nobody walks in L.A., after all), but he also jumped the median separating the north and south bound freeway lanes and began to drive the wrong direction on the shoulder of freeway next to us. Then, upon jumping back to our proper northbound lanes, he had to immediately stomp on his brakes so he could then back-up on the freeway to take the exit we had just passed. My God, I truly didn't think we would make it alive. But, he did make it in under 20 minutes!

AL East Chronicles

The Ray's continue to not just hold onto 1st place but add on to there lead.

The Sox have dropped to 4 1/2 games and are 5 game down in the loss column.

My Yanks despite a modest 2 game win streak have fallen 10 games behind the rays.

The Jays who I thought where starting to make a run, are now 12 games out.

The Rays seem to not be missing a beat despite a small rash of injury's.

The Sox and Yank's have been hit much harder by the injury bug but are still within striking range

If you have not been keeping up with the Little League World Series, Citrus Park went 2-1 in pool play has moved into the quarter finals, and are 2 wins from the championship game.

CITGO IS CHANGING(SNOPES verified)

In Orlando last week, at a CITGO station regular was priced at $3.82 per gallon, across the street it was selling for $3.85 per gallon and all of the pumps there had cars waiting tgo fuel.

Have you noticed how the CITGO signs have disappeared in the past 7-8 months? This is a very clever move by Chavez. But guess what CITGO is changing it's name to? This is serious Americans....Make sure you read.

Chavez is NOW getting a Russian Weapons Factory built by Putin. The Russians are building an AK-47 Kalashnikov Assauolt Rifle factory in Venezuela to give armament support to Communist Rebel groups throughout the Americas.

Chavez now has Iranians operating his oil refineries in Venezuela for him. It is likely only a matter of time, if not already, before Chavez has Iranian built LONG Range missiles, with a variety of warhead types aimed at...GUESS WHO.
CITGO is now in the process of changing its name to PETRO EXPRESS due to the loss of gasoline sales in the USA, which was due to the recent publicity of ownership by Chavez of Venezuela.

Every dollar you spend with CITGO or PETRO EXPRESS gasoline will be used against you, your basic human rights and your freedoms.

What would the world be like if everyone got paid like cab drivers do?

That's right its called get paid for what you do, not hourly and not salaried.

How would that change things, to start with when you can't find something in Wal Mart 2, 3 or more employees would just about trip each other to help you, instead of just stare at you like 1 they know what you want or 2 don't care.

If we still had full service gas stations (for those that don't know what a full service gas station is, people would really pump your gas for you) 3 or more people would come running out to pump your gas check your oil, your wiper blades and your tire pressure.

What would be like, it would be is if every worker in every business would act like they own the business.

TAXI STUFF FROM AROUND THE WORLD

This story is good. It came from a taxi library.

In Korea, we actually made the mistake of asking the driver to get to our destination quickly. He did. At the start of the journey, I had black hair...
But at least he was only doing what we asked, although we did not expect his eyes to light up with quite such glee nor his driving to take us so close to the edge - the edge of the road, the edge of other cars, the edge of trucks, the edge of lunacy, the edge of life itself.
But my Qingdao driver - let's call him Charles after Charles Bronson of the Death Wish movies, because he certainly looked a bit like Bronson and he most definitely had a death wish - had no such instructions.
Leaving the Olympic yachting venue, I uttered only one word: airport. Charles apparently took that to mean that I was in a hurry.
I have heard breathless stories from other travellers about catching a taxi in some Muslim countries because some of the drivers there believe totally that their death is a matter of Allah's will - and therefore they drive like men who are totally unafraid of death; which they are.
I believe those stories too for I have driven in Malaysia many times and have seen that philosophy at work - and to the driver who nearly wiped me out by overtaking on a blind corner near Mersing a few years back....I can only believe that you have been subjected to Allah's will already and pray that no-one else was involved.
But Charles...well, it came to me during this hair-raising trip that China had missed a trick at the Beijing Olympics. They could have instituted a series of new Olympic events at which the US would be absolutely crap and which might spell the difference between beating the Americans in the medal race and not.
Here they are:
1) Lane changing. You do this without warning and at speed, including dodging into a gap where there doesn't seem to be enough space for your car.
2) Horn blowing. You blow your horn for everything, especially when changing lanes and especially when not changing lanes. If you cruise up alongside another car, you sound your horn - because you can't be sure the guy alongside you won't change lanes just as crazily as you do. Finally, you blow your horn when you stop at the lights (Why? I don't know) and you blow your horn when the green light comes on. You do this even if the guy in front of you has already moved off.
If we'd put Charles into the Olympics, China would have had two gold medals, no danger. Whoops, now there's a misnomer.
The third event would be Road Kill (otherwise known as pedestrians). I do not know why Chinese pedestrians cross the roads other than at crossings. They stand in the impossibly busy roads, for all the world like targets, sometimes standing in the lanes, not even the white-line middle of the road. The taxi drivers then drive at them, often changing lanes to do so and always blowing the horn.
How more people don't die like this is beyond me. The onus of avoidance clearly seems to be with the pedestrians.
Charles' other talent was to gob off ferociously in Mandarin at other drivers who were apparently infringing the road code in some way; a code that never seemed to apply to him.
Charles was separated from me by one of those armoured-car partitions between front seats and back, so my frantic hand signals and shouts for him to go slower were ineffective.
When we arrived, I handed over some money, only for Charles to signal that he had no change. Truly, a death wish. But I was so pleased to still be alive that I weakly waved him away.
I just hope the tip finds its way to his wife and kids in the certain, inevitable fact of his death in a road accident.
Paul Lewis
Pictured above: Cars drive on Beijing's second ring road. (AP Photo / Greg Baker)

Comments
GT
East Tamaki
11:16AM Friday15 August 2008
Excuse me T hainlighe, you call NZ drivers civilised? Please. How many people don't indicate properly on roundabouts? How many even know how? How many people tailgate on the motorway just so noone can merge in front of them? How many people run red lights in Auckland? This is not to mention the road rage, the speeding, and the drink driving. Is the pot calling the kettle black?Most Chinese drivers I've seen in NZ are actually very slow and somewhat overcautious. Could the reason behind all the accidents be all the impatient tail-gating local drivers? The people who've been to China actually comment on how few accidents there are (chengdu_gavin & CareyA). I recomment taking a good look in the mirror.
Anthony Cheong
Birkenhead
10:04AM Friday15 August 2008
Yes, it really is an eye opener. I spent 2 month in China last summer travelling around states and I always found it very peculiar where pedestrians decide to cross the road. In one case I saw pedestrians climbing over and onto the state highway to cross when cars are travelling at over 100kmph. But lo and behold, I have not witness a single accident with my own eyes. I always wondered how they did it, it all seems so anarchic to me.
kukman
China
2:25AM Friday15 August 2008
Paul Lewis.we loved reading this.we live here in BJ.have also lived in 3 different Provinces in China over 5 years.had a car myself in Nanjing.sold it after 6mths & still had some hair left! Had a motorbike in Yichang.awesome.craziest drivers there. getting a motorbike here in BJ soon.feel safer on a motorbike than in a car.especially, as you say those (some) taxi drivers. talk about clinging to the seat & saying "excretement". subway is the safest form of travel here but not as much fun (?!?!).But you're right. beep beep!Anyway loved your humour. I'm one of those dangerous road crossing pedestrians I must add.only way to get across is to take the chance.& pedestrian crossings are not as they are in NZ. traffic is not required to stop for pedestrians. early lesson for me when I was a new arrival 5 years ago. standing at those white lines cursing the endless stream of non-stopping vehicles! Funny! You just have to laugh, huh?
Sad
Wellington City
1:04AM Friday15 August 2008
Haha, just another proof that kiwi should never travel overseas but keep stucking their head in their little hole! Only if kiwi can learn just 1% of the skill and humanity of the Chinese, there will be no fatality on the NZ road, and they won't be famous for being the worse drivers in the world.
T Hainlighe
Beachlands
8:56PM Thursday14 August 2008
Excuse me James Stewart, but it seems people from that side of the world can't handle driving like civilised people and cause 90% of road crashes in Auckland - ask any driver.

I am a day late but not a dollar short

I wanted to write about this yesterday but I hade
something a bit more burning to write about.

How does a team come back from a 10 spot in the bottom of the first, it beats the heck out of me.

The Texas Rangers had all the reason's in the world to tank Tuesday nights game at Fenway, down 10 they where a team going nowhere, but they fought back.

They scored 2 in the second 8 in the fifth, that brought them to with in 2 of the Sox, the Rangers with 5 in the 6 th pulled in front by three.

But the Sox pulled it out with one in the 7 th and four in the 8 th made the score 19-16, all the Rangers could muster was 1 run in the 9 th.

Baseball is a game of stats, more then any other sport on the planet, yeah I know other sports do keep stats but in baseball its a passion.

The game on Tuesday nite was both a stat keepers dream and nightmare.

The combined line score was, R 36 H 37 hits and E 4.

Texas had 7 players with 2 or more hits Boston had 5, Marlon Byrd and Dustin Pedroia each where 5 for 6

Both pen's got a workout Texas used 4 relievers and Boston used 5.

Its good the game started at 4 pm because if it started at 8 like many do, the game would have ended just before Midnight.

Its a shame more games don't start at 4 pm, its hard to get up in the morning and go to work when a game ends at midnight.

The baseball gods don't care as much for the fans in the stands just the ones in the luxury box's, and corporate sponsors .

They care for the "regular" fan just as much as the fleet owner cares about cab drivers.

Violence against cab drivers is on the rise

Yes violence against cab drivers is on the rise, and not just locally, but world wide.

In KwaZulu-Natal South Africa a driver was shot in what is believed to be a random attack, while sitting in a cab stand.

In Melbourne, Australia a 23-year-old Indian taxi driver was verbally abused and attacked by a passenger here, latest in a series of targeting cabbies from South Asian countries.

Lakhvir Singh who picked up a passenger late night on weekend was attacked by the commuter when he got out of the car to close the door left open by the man.

In St Louis the St. Louis police are still searching for a stolen taxi after the assailant robbed the driver and forced him to strip before taking his cab.
The incident happened about 1:30 a.m.

Tuesday. Police say the Yellow Cab driver picked up the customer, who robbed the driver of money, then forced him out of the vehicle and told him to disrobe, leaving the man wearing only his underwear.

The customer then sped off in the cab. The driver was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Two teenagers robbed a taxi driver and stole his taxi in a remote area east of the Jeddah expressway.1st Lt. Nawaf Al-Bouq, security spokesperson of Jeddah Police, said the two 17-year-old boys stopped a taxi at night and asked the driver to take them to the remote area where they attacked him.

The taxi driver reported the robbery and police then arrested the two. They admitted to the charges and have been referred to the Commission for Investigation and Prosecution.

In Northen Echo UK, a Woman saw taxi driver's struggle 6:16pm Tuesday 12th August 2008

A MOTHER has told a court how she saw the fatal struggle between a taxi driver and his passenger.
Cabbie Raymond Quigley died of a heart attack as he tried to restrain Dale Patterson before he could make off without paying his fare, a court has heard.
Mr Quigley, 72, had picked up Mr Patterson, 18, from Newcastle city centre to take him to Sunderland in the early hours of September 2.

All this plus the price of gas, and don't be surprised if the $1. surcharge is dropped like a hot potato soon.

The A-Trfain

Mark your calendar, October 19, 2008 is Mike's day. I for one will miss the excitment that he brought to the Buc's for ten years. Forget when he was hurt, back, neck and probably stuff the public didn't even know about. Thanks for the memories Mike. You will be missed in the huddle, need a yard give it to Mike.

The junk pile

A friend of mine sent this to me, remembering that I used to drive a cab. Subject: Law of the Junk Pile> >> > One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the> airport. We were > > driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car> jumped out > > right in front of us.> > My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and> missed the other > > car by just inches!> > The driver of the other car whipped his head around> and started > > yelling at us.> > My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I> mean, he was > > really friendly.> > So I asked, "Why did you do that?> > This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the> grave!"> > This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call,> "The Law of > > the Junk Pile."> > He explained that many people are like junk piles.> They run around > > full of junk; full of frustration, full of anger, and> full of > > disappointment. As their junk piles up, they need a> place to dump > > it and sometimes they'll dump it on you.> > Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish> them well, and > > move on.> > Don't take their junk and spread it to other> people at work, at > > home, or on the streets.> > The bottom line is that successful people do not let> junk piles > > take over their day.> > Life's too short to wake up in the morning with> regrets, so...Love > > the people who treat you right. Pity the ones who> don't.> > Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety> percent how you > > take it!> >

All kinds of games going on

Right now we have the start of the baseball stretch run going on, the Olympics has started and preseason football is up and running.

Last night after watching my Yanks going down to defeat again, I did some channel surfing.

I watched some swimming in the Olympics, I also watched some of the Buc's game but mostly I watched the LL World Series marathon that was the Great Lakes Region.

The game was between Jeffersonville IN and Mt Vernon OH, a border war for sure, the game went 11 innings which is like a 14 inning big league game.

After 2 innings and the score tied a 3 a piece it looked like it could be a high scoring game, but only 1 more run was scored by each team making it 4-4 after 6.

I have to tell you I turned of the TV and went to bed after the 10th, and I am glad I did because the final score of 11-4 was not the game I watched.

Just in case you have not kept up with the games or watched any local news in the last 3 days Tampa's own Citrus Park LL has advanced to the LL World Series in Williamsport PA.

Along with everything else I watched last nite I also watched some rugby, yeah its another one of those sports the rest of the world is crazy for and we don't give a rats behind for.

Rugby is different, while ill admit I don't have a clue what's going on most of the time, it is football in its purest form. It is football of the 40's and 50's before it became a world wide enterprise.

Ball carriers don't run out of bounds or fall down to avoid contact and a 4 or 5 players don't run in and out after each play.

I can understand if you hate soccer or cricket, they move so slow you have to keep blinking to see if something is happening, but if you spot rugby on the tube check it out.

More AL East Chronicles

Here we are the start of the second week of August getting well into the dog days and the Ray's are still the top of the heap in the best division in baseball. They are 2 1/2 games in front of the Sox and 5 1/2 up on the Yanks, and now the Jays have climbed within 9 1/2 games.

4 of the 5 teams in the AL East have a 500 or better record, compare that to the lowly NL West that have only 2 and just 10 days ago there where none, no other division in baseball has more then 3.

I like many have wondered how the new guys on the block would do during the August and September stretch, we will just have wait and watch to see if they run out of gas or make it to the playoff's.

The Sox have played well since the blockbuster trade but can't seem to close the distance with the Rays.

My Yanks can't seem to get out of there own way, its 1 step forward and 2 back, the injury list is starting to resemble the population of a small city.

Now Joba Chamberlain is on the injury list with rotator cuff tendinitis, any time you start with the rotator cuff its not good, and with how hard Joba throws this could change the type of pitcher he will become.

The Jays have picked things up with new manager Cito Gaston, but have also been hit by the injury bug, but have won 4 in a row and are now within striking range of the Rays but will have a tough clime over the Yanks and Sox.

A NICE CAB

Hi folks, the news carried the information that oil is below $120.00 a barrel for the first time in months. That little car to the right could hold three people. Now I wouldn't want to have a head on in it. ButI have always taken pride in my driving ability. Ha, Mrs. Pancake even like to ride with me. I recall when I was driving in Little Rock that I picked up this elderly lady and she wanted to go to the airport. It seems she came down from Chicago for a family reunion. They surprised her by buying her a ticket on a flight home, as she came to Little Rock on the bus. Now the Little Rock airport is not very big, the lady kept asking me if I knew where I was going? I told her yes and in fact we are almost there. She looked at and said "boy this is not a airport" The poor thing was thinking about O'Hare. It was hard to convince her that one of those airplanes was going to take her home. Butg I learned a lot about her family and all of the kids that she had. I guess they didn't TV. I really hope you drivers are taking advantage of the lower gas price. Get it while you can, it is my opinion that if Ob is elected it will not be good. That is what is so great about my country, the USA, we can say what we want. Be careful out three. UCLarry157

AL East Chronicles

I would first like to thank Cracker for his kind remark on my last post, I am sorry it took me so long to respond.

The pennant race in the Al East is starting to heat up, The Rays are still looking strong and are 3 games up on the Red Sox as we enter the dog days.

There are 2 other teams still in it my Yankees and the Blue Jays, 5 1/2 and 11 1/2 respectfully.

If you think the Jays are out of it just because of a double digit deficit, lets go back in history.

Thirty years ago the Yanks where 14 1/2 behind the hated Red Sox, with the Sox in town for 4 games (that is when 2 games where played nearly every Sunday and 1 ticket got you in for both of them) and got swept.

Back then the Yanks and Sox really hated each other and there was a real fight nearly every game and in that series there where 2 or 3 per game.

Many of the pundits said the Sox would be foolish to trade Manny and they would not get back value, well using the theory of less is more and the Sox didn't need more of Manny he was getting to be more of a distraction plus the addition of Jason Bay it looks like the Sox did well in this trade.

The Yankees have not made as big a splash during the trading deadline but did make 2 trades, they sent 4 low level prospects to Pittsburgh Pirates for Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte.

The Yankees then sent Kyle Farnsworth to the Detroit Tigers for Ivan Rodriguez, Farnsworth became expendable with the addition of Marte and young arms coming out of the farm system and the need of catching help.

The Rays have been quiet during the trade deadline, this can be taken two ways.

Wether or not a team makes trades at the deadline the players and fans have reason to think management is behind them or not.

I do think in this instant it is different, the Rays farm system is loaded and they believe they can get help from there.

The Yanks where in a similar situation last year they needed pen help and they brought up a kid named Joba Chamberlain, do I need to say more.

NEW TEAMS FOR GREAT PLAYERS

Manny Ramirez went 2 for 4 with a new number of 99 on his back. He had chance to be a hero in the ninth, but hit into a double play with the tying run on first. Ken Griffey, Jr. did better he drove in two of the four run that the White Sox scored. Junior said after the game that his nerves should be ok after a good night sleep. It seems that Jason Bay had the best reception, he got a standing ovation when he was introduced 15 minutes before the game. More on this situation later, be careful out there.

Tourists cont:

Don't know what happened, but 3/4 of the post got wiped out. I am going to try and remember what I said, fat chance. I was at the 23 stand, Burger King at Columbus and Dale Mabry. There were 3 cabs on the stand, it was around 2:00PM, the first of the month on a Friday afternoon. 23 not moving, sad, sad. I didn't know the drivers so I got my salad and left. I made a good living working the 23 stand, the drivers that knew me knew it for a fact. But I am sorry to say that things have changed, higher gas for one. I hope you city guys have a good weekend. Going to do a post on the blockbuster trade. My Dodgers getting Manny. I still like the Rays, they are my American League Team. It is nice to have Tom back into the fold.

Tourists up 3 1/2 %

I just heard this earth shaking information on the radio. In the same breath the guy says Florida is in a resession. Damn could have fooled me.