My talk went well at the Landlord & Buy to Let Show today so I decided to treat myself to a cab for part of my journey across London. Cabbies however are not what they were:
Me: Hello, can you take me to the nearest Central line underground station please?
Cabbie: Sorry love, no idea
Me: All right then, take me to Holland Park
Cabbie: Where’s that then?
Me: Don’t you know? Didn’t you do the Knowledge?
At this point he suggested that I might like to take another cab. WHICH I was quite happy to do, particularly as the second Cabbie told me he was a property investor (“and my girlfriend has about 60 properties”). Another card given out. And he knew where Holland Park underground station was.
Just a day in the life. And talking about days in the life, I have a real treat for you all coming up. Our regular guest blogger, Ben Reeve Lewis, is going to be doing a new series for me, “TRO Confidential”. Its brilliant. The first article “The case of the Bad Tempered Woman” will be going up on Friday.
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Sounds like an unlicensed operator had gotten hold of one of the cars that cabbies use. I don’t know if you noticed if he had a meter or not (and if he did, it may not have run at the rate it was supposed to).
I never thought of that!
TRO Confidential sounds absolutely fantastic, I can’t wait! I’m sure I could give Ben a few ideas, although probably nothing he hasn’t heard before!
Please do give your comments when the posts go online – people need to know what TROs do. And the problems that they experience.