By this time, I m sporting wood, totally amazed by the fact that two people I don t know are screwing right behind me. Before long, the sound and the aroma of sex filled the cab. They finished just as I pulled up to the club. The main reason I usually don t take people up on their party offers, though, is the competitive nature of the taxi business here. Drivers lease their cabs for exorbitant amounts of money and have to work 12 to 16 hours per day to make a living.
Most new drivers lose money the first few weeks.
If a driver takes a few hours off to go party, that driver won t make money that day. I ve gained 65 pounds while driving a cab, and women still flirt with me. About a month ago, I picked up two wealthy Newport women who asked me to take them to the seediest part of Orange County. They had me stop so they could buy beer on the way, and it was only midafternoon. I drove them to a motel in Stanton.