'ER INDOORS!
The Life & Times of a DaC Drivers Wife
Hello everyone
Pets - who would have them?
Err... I don't know quite how to put this, but we have a puppy! Yes
I know what you are all thinking, but I can't quite believe it
myself! The first time in 16 years that I haven't had a young child
at home due to my youngest child, Mitchell, going to school in
September and what do I do to celebrate my freedom? Buy a puppy!
Anyway we decided on a Border Terrier and his name is
Tuffy Littlenuts! Or Tufnut for short! Yes seriously, that is his
name; please no letters of complaint to the Editor regarding cruelty
to animals concerning his name. We chose the name of Tuffy
regardless of whether we got a dog or a bitch, very politically
correct. And yes it was my idea...
With all the gooey stuff that goes on with a puppies first night,
the thing that sticks in my mind the most was the next morning when
my husband casually remarked on how nice it was to have someone who
was actually pleased to see him when he came home!
Now what about this daughter, I hear you cry, who used to bring all the stray dogs home in a desperate attempt to get us to buy a dog. Is she happy? Ecstatic? Content, even? Well, the week after we got Tuffy, she rung me up from a friends house and said her friend has just bought two hamsters that day and could we look after them for a week, as she was going on holiday. I have got this terrible feeling that someone has placed an 'Animal Sanctuary' sign outside my door without me knowing. The answer was a firm no (I knew I could do it)!
Now for taxis
What really drives me mad about having a driver as a husband, is the
way he comes home and tells me word for word some strangers life
story, but rarely remembers what I tell him from one day to the next.
So recently I was complaining to him that he listens to all his
clients' chat, but everything I tell him goes in one ear and out the
other. Do you know what his reply was? He said that... "It
doesn't even go in one ear!" I swear I will swing for him one
day!
And Finally
It has come to my attention that one of my husband's fellow taxi
drivers, an ex-member of Dial-a- Cab, has remarked on how terribly
annoying it is that a mere woman, indeed one that does not even drive
a taxi, should be allowed to write a column for a taxi magazine.
After the usual reactionary thoughts that sprung to mind,
ie I didn't realise they still allowed cavemen to drive taxi's etc, I
gave it some serious thought - about 2 seconds worth after I had
finished laughing! I decided that a taxi driver that was not a member
of Dial-a-cab should get his own magazine. I think he will probably
find what he's looking for on the top shelf of the newsagents.
Meceeoooowwww!!!
And on that 'appy' note, I bid you goodbye for now from 'er
indoors...
Leigh Briden
