When I lived in a rented house
a few years back, the phone number was one digit different to a big city centre Taxi company.

It was not bad during the week, only one or two calls a day.

The weekend though ... as people got more and more pissed and sausage fingered, the more calls I would get. from 11pm until 3am Friday and Saturday I would get about 20 calls from pissheads after a taxi to either take them out or take them home.

I was'nt too bothered as I was usually awake anyway (or out myself) but it did annoy me for a few weeks until I found the solution.

Instead of calling them a sausage fingered cunt and hanging up I just asked where they were and told them "no problem Mr X, your taxi is on the way, wait outside and it should be there in 20 minutes."

It didn't reduce the frequencey of calls, but it cracked me up everytime thinking of those poor cold pissheads waiting out in the cold for their non existant taxi.
( RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Mon 8 Sep 2008, 16:19, Reply)