 If you have been in the taxi business for more than 10 minutes, you’ll have heard of the Children's Magical Taxi Tour that is organised by the Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers. Each year it takes around 200 children – many of whom suffer |
DaC’s Fiona and the Magical Taxi Tour |
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with life-threatening
illnesses – to the Disneyland Resort, Paris. Many of the
volunteer drivers, in addition to the organisers, are from
Dial-a-Cab. The next trip will be between 24th- 26th September 2010 and continuing with the DaC theme, one of our Customer Service Representatives, Fiona Mclachlan, spoke to WCHCD’s Jim Rainbird (T25) and said she wanted to do something that could help. She obviously couldn’t drive a cab over that weekend, but she came up with another idea. Fiona, who is well known to many drivers that work at Cabot Square during the evenings when, as a DaC Marshal, she takes bookings for the Citigroup rolling rank, decided to hand-make a |
Disney cross stitch
picture of Mickey, Minnie and Pluto and then donate it to the
Disney trip. It was auctioned at the recent WCHCD Christmas Gala
at the Marriott Hotel West India Quay. On behalf of Jim Rainbird and the Chairman of the Disney Committee, DaC’s Phil Davis (F10), a big thank you to Fiona because her cross stitch raised an amazing £270 in a bidding war! On one side was a lady on the M&O table, whilst the opposition was no less than DaC Chairman Brian Rice who wanted it for new grandson Charlie - and Brian finally won the bid! The total raised on the night was over £2000 and both Phil and Bob asked Call Sign to thank everyone who either bid for items or bought raffle tickets... |
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A local charity office realised that it had never received a
donation from the town's most successful - albeit notoriously
mean - businessman. The charity called the businessman and its’
director tried to persuade him to contribute... "Our research shows that out of a yearly income of at least £12million, you give not a penny to charity. Wouldn't you like to give back to the community in some way?" The businessman mulled this over for a moment and then replied: "Firstly, did your research also show that my mother is dying after a long illness and has medical bills that are several times her annual income?" Embarrassed, the charity director mumbled embarrassingly that he hadn’t. The businessman continued: "Or that my disabled war veteran brother is blind and confined to a wheelchair?" The stricken charity worker began to stammer out yet another apology, but was interrupted again: "…or that my sister's husband died in a traffic accident, leaving her penniless with three young children to look after?" The humiliated charity director, completely beaten, said simply: "I had no idea..." On a roll, the businessman cut him off once again: "...and so, if I don't give any money to them, why should I give any money to you??" |
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