“I’m just gonna fuck this guy real quick so I can get cab fare!”
August 27th, 2008
“Son of a bitch, you’re running up the meter!”5 comments
August 20th, 2008
"Hey bro, remember me? You wrote that story about me in the paper."3 comments
August 13th, 2008
“It’s the Californians, man, the Californians are the worst.”13 comments
August 6th, 2008
The middle-aged man I picked up at Vendetta is in a hyperactively verbose lather ...0 comments
July 23rd, 2008
When I step into the obese old woman's apartment5 comments
July 16th, 2008
The obese old woman at Fred Meyer has a bad hip and a wheelchair...8 comments
July 9th, 2008
“...I need to take a shower first and wash all of this blood off.”6 comments
July 2nd, 2008
“So I’ve got these two women in the back of my cab who just refuse to get out...”8 comments
June 25th, 2008
“My friend’s getting divorced, and he’s really drunk,” says the bartender...8 comments
June 18th, 2008
There’s nothing like a good Friday night, and I’m referring to the money.3 comments
[February 20th, 2008]
“I’ll meet you at Jerry’s, I’m just gonna fuck this guy real quick so I can get cab fare!” the woman yells across the street, and I’m tempted to just floor it before she can get in. Unfortunately, the guy who’ll presumably be paying her is already in, and he’d be pissed. At least he probably has cash.
He tells me to take them to a nearby hotel, but before we can get more than two blocks, he has me turn the cab around so the woman “can talk to her nieces.” I do so, and the woman directs me to a drug corner where she gets out and has an animated discussion with two large men who eventually hand her something after she gives them money. She’s overjoyed when she gets back in the car and her purse is still there, the pictures of her kids inside.
“Wow, you’ve got kids?” asks the man.
“I got six, two pairs of twins and two singulars,” she says.
“Wow.”
“Two pairs of twins and two singulars,” she repeats.
“Wow, life is such a miracle.”
“I guess I’m glad I had ’em,” she mutters.
“Can I see their pictures?” he asks.
“Yup. See the ones that look alike? They’re the twins.”
“Wow, I need to get some kids soon.”
And while parts of me are amused, and others are horrified, I’m mostly fascinated by the psychology of a man who asks to see pictures of his prostitute’s children.
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Well, to quote Jerry:
Old man down, way down down, down by the docks of the city.
Blind and dirty, asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee.
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