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Guest Column: Nick the Cabbie – “The Hard, the Rock and the Frowsy”

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Posted June 21st, 2009 by Nick the Cabbie - 1 comment

It’s still dark when I pick up the three guys from the Hard Rock Casino, but I can tell that the sun is not far away. They tell me to drive towards the MGM, but it isn’t clear if this will be the actual destination. I discover that they recently met at Body English and have been there drinking and having fun all night.

Curiously, the guy with the thick German accent in the front seat looks like he just got ready to go out…except he decided to put on the clothes from the day before.

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Guest Column: Nick the Cabbie – “Taxicab Confessions”

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Posted June 2nd, 2009 by Nick the Cabbie - Add comment

The night is still young, even if I were to judge by another city’s standards, but the guy being placed into my taxi must have started drinking at some point before noon. The girl mothering him is, surprisingly, not his mother… they seem to be about the same age.  She tells me to take them to the Palms and almost immediately notices the camera attached to the windshield. I explain that the camera footage is only reviewed when something happens, but I get the feeling that most people don’t believe me when I say this.

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Guest Column: Nick the Cabbie – “Convention People”

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Posted April 7th, 2009 by Nick the Cabbie - 2 comments

It’s a little after nine o’clock in the morning and for the past forty-five minutes I’ve been driving back and forth from the MGM Signature towers to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center as fast as the passengers and the traffic will allow. It’s not the most desirable fare, but today I happen to be restricted. (Restricted cabs are prohibited from picking up rides Downtown, on the Strip, or at McCarran International Airport.)

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Guest Column: Nick the Cabbie – “Terminated: The Bernie Lomax Chronicles”

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Posted March 25th, 2009 by Nick the Cabbie - Add comment

There’s a girl throwing up on the floor in the back of my taxi, but the guy with her assures me that it’s no big deal because she doesn’t have anything else left in her stomach. “It’s just a little water,” he tells me. I’ve never kicked a person out of my cab and I’ve never made a customer clean up their own vomit, but I’m pretty sure that if he’s wrong I will unfortunately only be able to choose one of these options.

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