Driving fast vs driving a fast car

Do you people understand the difference? I had an 85 Ford Tempo that I could drive fast. 85 or so if I pushed it. I also had a 95 Mazda Protege that I could drive fast when I wanted to. I currently have a 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX. That’s a fast car that I don’t have to push to go fast. It’s just fast. Like pocket rocket fast. The reason I ask is I see a lot of you on the roads putting along, but when you see me, suddenly, you see red. I see the car lurch forward as you punch the gas to try and beat me to the next light. More often than not, I don’t do anything other than continue to drive. Just like when I’m doing 85 in the fast lane on the highway and a Ford Expedition comes flying up behind me, I change lanes. What annoys me is you were in the middle lane till I passed you. Then you felt the need to prove something.
One of these days I’m going to follow you, and when you stop, I’m going to ask if it felt good, and do you feel better for making it to the next whatever before me. Then I’m going to ask you if you want to go somewhere and race for cash. Or even just for bragging rights. Most of the time, it’s men who do this crap to me, so if it’s who’s penis is bigger, we can skip racing and just unzip and see who’s is bigger. I particularly like that idea because no matter what’s under the hood of your car, you’re kinda stuck if your Willie is tiny. At the end of the day, I got my car because I like it. Not to race those of you with something to prove. So go find someone else to bother, see a plastic surgeon and find out if penis enlargement works yet, find a hobby. I don’t care, just please, please: stop pissing me off.

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Why delivery charges are bad.

I’m not sure why owners do this: having a delivery fee that doesn’t go to the driver really fucks us over. First of all, no other employee is paid from any sort of fee. Not the bartender, not a waitperson, no a phone person, not even a cook. So why then is the driver’s pay supplemented by a service we’re largely paying for ourselves by having the car, putting our own gas in it, taking care of all the repairs, and so forth? No other employee has to do that, and yet we’re partially being paid by that fee. Most places give something for gas, but it’s never even close to what it should be. It should be the IRS mileage rate, especially since most employers try to be slick and deduct the mileage rate, even though they never paid us for it. That rate in CT this year is 55 cents a mile. So if the delivery were 18 miles round trip, and yes, we really do take deliveries that far, then my “gas money” for the trip should be $9.90. Instead, it’s usually something along the lines of 50 cents to a dollar, tops.
Here’s the bigger problem: customers see that money and assume it goes to us. Often it’s between $1.50 and $2. Of that we might get 30%. So the employer is making an additional 70% profit on that fee we provided. So if your order were $30,a good tip would be around $4.50 Some people will deduct that delivery charge and give us maybe $3 instead. So we wind up with $3 to $3.50 for a $30 order on a trip that took an half an hour with traffic. Now you have to deduct what we used in gas, and we’ll skip the wear and tear. On my car, I get 20 miles a gallon. So that’s almost a gallon of gas to take that delivery. So it cost me $4 to bring you the delivery that you gave me $3 for. So I lost a dollar right there. If i get 50 cents from my employer I only lost 50 cents for the delivery. If my hourly pay is $7, in that half an hour I made $3.50, but since I lost 50 cents, now I only made $3 for that half hour.
If you do the math and figure out averages, it can really piss you off because if every situation were like that, we would make $6 an hour after gas, making the job just not worth it. It’s the good customers who understand all that, that make it worth doing most of the time. The people who give a $10 tip for a $30 order because they know they live 9 miles from the store. Or the people who give a little extra when it’s raining, or snowing, or really hot or cold. Those people bring up the average and our hourly pay will go way up.
That doesn’t excuse the owners who screw us over with delivery charges we don’t get 100% of, especially the ones who give you nothing for it. And it doesn’t excuse the customers who know how far they are or what the weather is, but are too cheap to give what they should. The example I used above is a high percentage. We should get 15% at every delivery, the same as waiters do. We have much more risk, and way more expenses than they do. The sad truth of the matter is a lot of you won’t tip us 15%, or even 10%. Those of you who are like that average between 3% and 5% which is just pathetic. We remember you, and we take your orders last. We also don’t go the extra mile, or are extra nice. We tried it before and it seems like you’re in league with the owner to price us out of work. Which is fine, we can find other jobs, but that means you’ll have to get off your lazy asses and go pick up your food.

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New boss accuses me of stealing….

So at this new place orders don’t get assigned to drivers as they go out, like they should, and I really should have continued my tradition of writing down my runs and separating my tips, but I didn’t. So a few orders get mixed up tonight. We get through most of them, when the owner comes in. She’s got to get right in the middle of it and try to figure it out, but she’s also a victim of OCD and ADD and gets really mean when she’s frazzled.

The first thing she does is try to get me to pay twice for a ticket. I had just given the other guy the money for it and gotten my change. Then she asks for it and I say “we just did it”. She’s like “how much did you give me?” and I say “twenty”. So she’s like “I gave you $2 change?” Umm, I think so, but to be fucking honest, I think it was the other guy who gave me the change. I really can’t remember. I just finished 10 1/2 busy hours. All I remembered was paying for it, not who I handed it to.

Then she says, “You had all credit card orders?” to which I say, “All but two.” She actually says “I find that suspicious. I have people here who can tell me where you went and for what.” What the fuck? I did all credit card orders, except those two in cash. Ask any waiter or delivery person, sometimes it’s all cash. Sometimes it’s all credit. It’s certainly not fucking suspicious. There was no money short, so what’s the big fucking deal? I start to try to explain that to her and she says, “I can see where this is going to be a problem. Every time there’s an issue, you have to give me your life story to explain it.” That’s pretty fucking rude and totally not true.

Time to start looking for another job, I guess.

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Got yet another new job..

When the Indian place, Thali, ended delivery and left me out of a job, I got a job a few days later delivering Chinese food for Little Kitchen across the street. Little Kitchen didn’t really have enough hours for me, and I lucked out and found a job delivering at a pizza place in Westport, full-time. I can’t say for sure yet how this new job is until I start banging out some actual deliveries in Westport. They do a LOT of catering orders, really far away, which take a lot of time, and kind of kills your tip potential compared to if you took 10 deliveries locally in that time. I’m hopeful, though. I’ll write back in a few days when I see how the weekend goes.

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Shitty Tipper List part 2

Most of these are in Westport, you know, one of the wealthiest towns on the planet.

More cheap Westport people (fuckers)
1) 56 Coleytown Road
2) 292 North St
3) 10 Reichert Circle
4) 11 Northfield Drive ($3 tip on $80 order)
5) 123 Greens Farms Road
6) 16 North Pasture Road
7) 20 Stoneboat Road
8) 2 Windy Hill Road
9) 44 Pumpkin Hill Rd ($5 on $75)
10) 124 River Road (nothing on a $35 order)
11) 6A Cob Drive ($6 tip for $105 order)
12) 72 Ludlow ($1.50 on a $25 order)
13) 38 Richmondville Ave ($4 on $100 order)
14) 1 Charcoal Lane ($5 on $90)
15) 2 Murvon Place ($3 on $70 order)
16) 25 Saugatuck Ave (Store forgot slip, so they gave me ZERO tip)
17) 2 Rustic Lane ($5 on $100)
18) 11 Sturges Highway ($5 on $93)
19) 1 Hickory Drive ($3 on $65)
20) 89 Sturges Highway ($3 on $55)
21) 162 Lyons Plains Road, Weston ($5 on $85)
22) 71 Old Hill Road (no tip for $60 order)
23) 236 Hillspoint Road ($5 for $135)
24) 2 Snowflake Lane ($5 on $83)
25) 89 sturges highway. Went twice, $4 tip on $63 order and they live in a mansion.

26) 5 east meadow road. $24.38 paid $40 told me i could keep the 62 cents.

27) 4 broadview rd. $5 tip on $145 order.

28) 4 jennings court. $40. Zero tip.

29) 10 sylvan lane. Being from another country doesn’t excuse 5% tips on big orders.

30) 23 sound view farm rd weston. You live 17 miles round trip and gave me a $3 tip.

31) 11 northfield. $4 tip on an $88 order makes you look cheap. That’s less than 5%. And you do it all the time in your huge house. You tip worse than people in bridgeport.

32) 22 hill crest lane weston. 22 miles round trip in a storm. $6 tip on $50 order in a mcmanson makes you assholes. I spent $4.25 in gas to make $1.75 and it took an hour. Losers.

33) 32 compo parkway $58 order ZERO tip.

34) 15 parsell lane. $101 order, $5 tip. Cheap.

35) 34 old redding rd weston. $55 order, $5 tip. 20 miles.

36) 7 silverbrook, $6 on $88 order.

37) 84 easton rd. $73 order, zero tip.

38) 28 timber mill lane weston. $5 tip for $125 order. Congratulations you cheap fucks. That’s 4%. Losers.

39) 6 swale rd norwalk. $2.25 on a $24 order and kinda far. Cheap.

40) 78 lords highway east weston. 26 miles round trip for $5 on a $25 order makes you cheap. I spent that much in gas.

41) 8 overlook. $5 on $100. Come on.

42) 4 hales rd. 22 cents on $29.78. Assholes.

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People are willing to die or kill on the highway.

Coming home, this guy flies up behind me about 5 feet back. I have traffic in front if me, so why move? I dump it from 5th to 3rd, no brakes. Scared the shit out of him and i get high beams. He finds an opening, flies way out to the slow lane, and barrels up to tailgait the next guy. Two more cars do this as i get closer home. One almost bites it driving the breakdown lane. Mind you, I’m doing 80 WITH traffic. These guys are doing well over 100. And in crappy cars. Why? To save 5 minutes? Or is it to compensate? Slow down morons. Time and place. Cause me to wreck, if you’re wrecked too and I can walk, I’m gonna kick the shit out of you till EMS gets there.

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I haven’t forgotten to post

I’ve just been really busy trying to find a better job, so I’ve been neglecting my blog. I’ll start posting again in a few days.

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Why save money with the driver when you’re rich?

The area where I work now is supposed to be like the 5th wealthiest town in the country. These people get new cars every year, they wear all the latest designer clothes, $10,000 watches, they have acres and acres of land for their million dollar plus houses, they have vacation homes in other states and countries, they vacation several times a year, and when they order food they spend a lot. Then they fuck the driver on a tip. Not all of them, but enough to be annoying. The bad tippers average between 2 and 5% for a tip. Imagine taking $100 worth of food in snow or rain and getting between $2 and $5 for a tip. It’s like they’re saying “fuck you, I don’t respect the service you’re providing, but I’m willing to overpay for the food and make sure every other employee there is taken care of.” Because the other employees do get paid much better, and the waiters inside average between 15 and 20% in tips. How someone got the idea you need to tip the guy who doesn’t have any work expenses and fuck the guy who has lots is beyond me. Take what just happened: one of the cheap fucks 4 miles from here just called to complain they wanted more rice. Now I have to waste my fucking gas to bring them more rice when they tipped me $3 on a $62 order. They might say thank you but it’s a huge fuck you to me. I hate these assholes.

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Asshole Neighbors

This isn’t about delivering, but I had to blog about it. I’ve been having problems with my downstairs neighbors from almost day 1 when I moved in two years ago. The first incident, I had a few friends over on a Friday night to celebrate the new apartment, and yes, we were being loud pretty late, but it was Friday and all. The neighbor came upstairs pounding on the door screaming he was trying to sleep and tried to start a fight. That happened a second time as well. Both times he apologized for being a dick. I didn’t accept it either time, since he, and his family are dicks. Then one day he comes upstairs pounding on the door because there’s a leak in the ceiling and water is dripping down. He wants to fight because “how could I not know?” umm, because it’s in the ceiling downstairs which is under my floor, that’s how asstard. He later apologizes for that one, too, but he got in a shoving match with me before his brother stopped him.
Then there was the time in the summer I had been drinking a little and was asleep when his brother decides to start trouble. Apparently my car was on the street where he likes to park. He tells my roommate to wake me up to move my car so he can have his favorite spot on the public street. I go down, the two of them start shoving and grabbing at me, I eventually move and the bitch gets his parking spot. The landlord later quashed that when I said if the bullshit kept happening I would call the cops. The next incident, the same brother decides to park across my car blocking me in my spot so I can’t leave. I leave a nasty note and again tell the landlord.
Then there was the July 4th issue last year. I was lighting sparklers on the porch when the first brother comes home, runs up the porch screaming I could start a fire and his kids could burn to death. His kids weren’t home I pointed out. He doesn’t care, nor does he care that I have a fire extinguisher with me just in case, and starts shoving me. I tell him to stop or I would call the cops, he grabs my sparklers shoves me again and I go inside and call the cops. They come, listen to both our stories, tell him he’s lying, and document it just like that. They ask if I want him arrested, I say no, just a report so if it continues I can do something (I’d be pretty rude to get him arrested on July 4th). The cop tells him he’s lucky, I could have had him arrested and to leave me alone. The next day he sees me on the porch smoking a cigarette and asks what I’m looking at. I reply that I was out there first already looking in that direction, and what was he looking at. He starts towards me saying “What’s that White boy?” His brother stops him. I yell back “Why’s it gotta be about race?” Oh yeah, they’re all Black or half Black and hate Whites for some dumb reason.
It was quiet for a while until recently when I noticed the brother parking in our off street spot. I didn’t say anything a few times, reasoning I just don’t want to play that game with them. Let me be the bigger man, right? Life will give them enough lemons and they’ll deserve it, right? Fucking karma seems to perpetually reward complete assholes while fucking those of us with restraint over. I come back tonight and the second brother is parked so close to the middle of two driveways I have to park down the street. He has been asked by the landlord to make room for two cars to park there and he doesn’t. I fucking hate him. I seriously do. The whole lot of them. Husband, wife, brother, the kids, they all suck. And they make a shitload of noise starting at 4am with getting ready for work/school then going in and out and in and out, slamming the doors the whole time. Then they have the gall to ask us to be quiet. Fuck those fucking fuckers.

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Ninjavideo, Suprbay, The Pirate Bay.

I’m banned again from Suprbay. I got in an argument with a guy who supported free speech as an absolute right, even for pedophiles to make kiddie porn. I said free speech isn’t absolute, and that he support child porn. I got banned by a mod who said free speech is an absolute right. How fucking moronic is that? He supports people making kiddie porn, but bans me for saying making kiddie porn is wrong. Then, the other mods I appealed it to, also said they support the decision to ban me. They said name calling isn’t free speech on Suprbay. But supporting kiddie porn is. For the record, I wasn’t name calling. I simply said he supported kiddie porn and that I found that kinda gross. I then told the mods on IRC that they are turning more and more into the dicks at Ninjavideo. The NV mods used to be like that: not giving a shitt about their users, only caring about how many bans they could pass out. Where’s ninjavideo now? Offline, that’s right. These guys at SB seem to think that the world will fall apart without them. It’s a fucking forum site. Grow a pair of balls and stop making everyone go along with the status quo. That’s so annoying. On the thread they used that argument that laws against things like indecency because the masses say so don’t make them right. And there again, when I go against the masses on SuprBay they ban me.
For the record, I do not support absolute free speech. One person said Blacks should just have to deal with it at work if the Whites gang up on them and tell racist jokes, just as women would have to deal with being sexually harassed. To protect free speech. But folks, that sort of speech isn’t protected. If you want to blog about it, it’s fine, but if you want to make someone else feel bad about it, it’s not usually ok. The original case had a guy who made a video that looked like he was singing some sort of adult lyrics to some kids. He didn’t. He just made it look that way. In his state it was still illegal, presumably to stop those tards who make the fake child porn videos. The people on Suprbay said as long as no one was really injured what’s the problem? I said because it leads to people actually doing it, hence the law against it. Apparently on Suprbay the only speech that isn’t protected is that of the sane mind.

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Do people get why bad tips hurt all of us?

The delivery I just took was almost $50. The woman with 2 Mercedes in the 5th wealthiest town in America tipped me almost $2. $1.99 to be exact. People don’t seem to get that we use our own cars, buy our own gas, pay our own insurance, taxes, upkeep, and risk our lives to bring you your food quickly. Then there are the elements. We come in rain, snow, lightning storms, blistering heat, and freezing cold. We often have to wait for some of you dumbasses who don’t have the money ready, are asleep, or not even home. 99% of the time when we’re late to a delivery, it’s because one of you dumbasses made us late, not because we’re slow. So think about it when you give that waiter a 20% tip for going from a warm kitchen to a warm dining room completely safe how you fuck over drivers. Tipping is supposed to keep food costs down, and often offers you free delivery. How a customer could use a 20% off coupon then give the driver 4% is beyond me. Oh, that 1% of the time we’re late? It’s because your cheap. You fucked us over and showed you don’t care about us so we take everyone else’s order first, even if you called first. If we see you got a package, we might kick it into the bush. If you ask us to help with something, most likely we’ll say no. If you ask for a menu, for you we’re out. We hate you and hope there is a purgatory and you have to spend a hundred years waiting on cheaper bastards like yourselves.

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Slow week

So of the last 3 nights, I have taken 2 deliveries tonight. WTF? Apparently advertising isn’t a big concern here. I wonder if making money is. For delivery you have to advertise. It doesn’t matter if you have one of Gordon Ramsey’s restaurants. If you want to deliver you have to keep getting the word out there. EVERY month. Supposedly it’s been done here 3 times in 10 months with an expectation that word of mouth will carry it. Wrong! Delivery could be 25% or more of a business, but you have to feed it. Sitting back and expecting money to fall in your lap is a really bad idea. I like it here and I hope business picks up in spring and summer, but I’m looking for a second job.

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Standard Tippers

I just took a delivery to a house that’s probably worth about $2,000,000 on 4 acres of land surrounded by a wall with a remote gate. They always tip $3 to $4 tops. The order was $51. That’s just cheap even by Bridgeport standards, let alone that the house is in Westport. They’re getting an anonymous letter on the etiquette of tipping.

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Banned on SuprBay Yet Again.

Your forum account is currently banned. Ban Reason: arguing a modcall and trying to evade ban with a puppet account.
Ban will be lifted: 9th February 2011, 23:41

So here’s what happened: I asked a question about movies being available online before they come out in the theater. One of the mods decided he didn’t like the question so he just trashed my thread. No reason given. So I post in a different area the same question. So they ban me for arguing a modcall. But for me to have argued it, there would have had to be a reason given,and there wasn’t. I think the mod was just being a dick. So I created a fake account and posted I think he’s a dick. So they banned that account and extended the ban on my other account for another two weeks.

THE MODS ON SUPRBAY ARE A BUNCH OF FUCKING PUSSIES. I wish they lived near me so I could see if they wet their pants if I got up in their face. I mean that’s what this is essentially, right? They’re using their keyboards to ban people for no good reason because they’re pussies.” And they are almost exactly like the mods now that Ninjavideo had. The Pirate Bay will tell you they’re all about freedom, and how rules that don’t make sense need to be changed, but look at their forums. They’re just as guilty of being complete asshats as the corporations they say they’re fighting using piracy. Every time the corporations bend them over and stick it in a little further, I laugh. Just like I laughed when they suggested we stop using Paypal for some bullshit reason. Fuck that. I love Paypal. The Pirate Bay can kiss my ass. If they have an issue with Paypal, that’s on them, not us. As to their freedom of speech issues, they’re hypocrites. They say one thing and do another. I can only hope I get to read about the day they get shut down for good. The pirates out there will still be able to get their files from other sources, but the little bitches banning people they don’t agree with will have to go back to playing World of Warcraft and wishing they had a friend, a clue, and a girl.

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2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

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Crunchy numbers

A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,900 times in 2010. That’s about 14 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 27 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 40 posts. There were 5 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 252kb.

The busiest day of the year was July 1st with 671 views. The most popular post that day was Ninjavideo Sucks.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were ninjavideo.us, facebook.com, semperpiepizza.com, fucktmobile.com, and fuckstarbucks.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for ninjavideo, ninjavideo sucks, phara sucks, ninjavideo shut down, and ninja video shut down.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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Ninjavideo Sucks September 2009
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Ninjavideo Shut Down. Ha, ha. July 2010
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About July 2009

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Zen Of A Pissed Off Driver July 2009
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Why I think Avatar will suck. November 2009
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A Random Rant About Doctors

Doctors that won’t effectively treat paid are what’s causing anyone in paid to self-medicate. For example: a few years ago I had to have 3 teeth extracted. The dentist gave me Motrin 800 for the pain. I never bothered filling the script. My Excedrin Migraine is stronger. Not only that, I’d have to take 4 or 5 to dull the pain. I called later and said it wasn’t working and he said that was all he could do. Yet years ago I had a wisdom tooth out and got Percocets (10mg). Perfect. It wasn’t refillable and got me through the pain. In the most recent case I wound up getting drunk for a few days to have relief from the pain. How is that helpful?
I know doctors that will refuse psych meds if there’s any chance they’ll make you feel good. Like Xanax. They’re okay with the ones with side-effects that would scare a torture master, but the ones that might be addictive, they refuse to give out. If doctors refuse to treat patients effectively maybe they should consider a different career or at least lobby for drugs like Marijuana to be legalized. I’d much rather get a safe, effective script from a doctor than get drunk or high, but aspirin doesn’t cut it for chronic pain. The oath to do no harm should include not leaving people in pain because of your own fears.

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Working at a new place. And Indian place!

I was supposed to start working at a pizza place in Westport about a month ago. For those of you who don’t know, Westport is ranked the 5th wealthiest town in the United States. CT has a few of the wealthiest including Darien, and New Canaan ranked 2, and 1, respectively. Anyway, the guy at the pizza place only had Friday and Saturday to start but mentioned the manager of the Indian place across the street kept coming over to see if any drivers wanted extra hours. So I went and applied. Right off the bat he offered me 6 nights a week. At first I had told him I couldn’t do Friday and Saturday, that I’d committed myself to the pizza place for those two nights, but the week I was supposed to start at the pizza place, they said come back next week, that it was slow due to Thanksgiving. They didn’t bother to call me, and I was there ready to work, so I figured I need to do what’s best for me, and tips were great at the Indian place, so I committed there.

I now work at Thali 6 nights a week. The tips are really good. I average 20%. Ask any pizza driver and they’ll tell you the average for delivery is about 5% sometimes lower. Even in Westport, where I’d delivered before, I’d usually only get a little better than 5% for delivering pizza. One thing that works in my favor is Indian food is expensive. One small bag of food is easily $40. A big bag is around $100. The problem is it’s slow most nights. Tonight I took 4 deliveries. My first tip was $10. My second was $12. The third tip was $5, and my last tip was $10, I think. I get paid $5.69 an hour (taxed) and worked 4 hours. Plus, I take some of the guys home every night for another $12 cash. So I was at work for 4 hours and made around $70. That’s not stellar, but it’s not too shabby either. On a Friday or Saturday I do closer to 10 deliveries, so I average $100 in tips, $10 in delivery fees, $23 in pay, and $12 to take the guys home. Which all works out to about $36 an hour. It’s a new place and I hope it gets busier, but I don’t know how they’re advertising and they have been there 9 months now.

Another thing I like is that drivers drive. That’s it. No sweeping, no mopping, just driving. I can wait in my car if I want, but I usually stay inside. I get free food if I eat there and a 25% discount if I take food home. Chicken Tikka Masala. Yummy! And they’re all super nice there. I never spent much time around Indians, so I didn’t know what to expect, and to be honest, was a little apprehensive about working for them, but it turns out I was completely wrong. I got invited to their New Year’s Eve party with the other 4 stores. I’m probably not going just because it’s going to be a long drive back if I do, and I prefer to avoid being/dodging drunk drivers. But it was a very nice offer.

And their clientele is a lot better than pizza customers. They’re a lot more appreciative. No complaints so far, and my WRX gets me there quickly so I get lots of compliments on my speed. One woman complained I was too quick, but she still tipped me $7. lol. Westport is a town I can’t afford to live in, unless I get this book published, but I really love the town. My girlfriend’s brother has a small house there. A little too small for my taste, and with no yard to speak of. I want a HUGE yard and a decent sized house, at least 1800 square feet. As long as I have room for my stuff, my cats, and guests, with a huge fenced in yard, I’ll be happy.

So far the only issue I had was a guy who tired to run me off the road the other night. I think he was from Bridgeport since the car was ghetto with black tinted windows and rims. He comes flying up behind me with his high beams on, gets about a foot from my bumper and rides my ass. It started with me on the side of the road on the phone. I saw him with his high beams on speed up and turn his car into the breakdown lane like he was going to hit me so I took off. I finally slow down enough where he has to hit me or pass me, so he passes me. We wind up at an intersection and he’s going left, I happen to be going straight, so I turn my high beams on at him. He stops in the intersection and rolls down his window, but I drive past him. Hey, he could have had a gun, and I’m not in the mood to get shot/killed over some piece of trash. I shit you not, though, if I had a Jeep Wrangler with that nice solid iron bumper, I would have slammed on the brakes and let him hit me, then called the cops.

Other than that, life’s pretty peachy right now 🙂

The Driver (Adam Smith)

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Slow down and go assholes.

You know the type: they slow down, then go slower, and slower till the green light turns yellow, then they stop and finally floor it through the red light leaving you stuck there. These people I want to ram off the road, grab them by the neck and beat them senseless. Then I want to find their mother and beat her senseless for not swallowing. They seriously piss me off. I should have known but I was 2 cars behind the 10, 20, 10mph asshole. Often it’s a senior citizen or new teen driver which is an entirely different issue. In those cases they jus need to lose their license for either being too stupid or too old to drive. Teens (under 18) and seniors (over 65) need to be retested every year.

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Crazy drivers and the ghetto bitch

Maybe it’s a holiday thing but all day people have been cutting me off on the road. And for what? To get there one car ahead of me? That’s really worth risking everyone’s lives over? Fucking morons. Maybe people who do that should be crippled for life as a public safety measure.
And the ghetto bitch was in Milford. There’s a part of the road where you can go straight or left. She hops in the left turn lane and goes straight and makes it abundantly clear if I don’t let her in she’s going to ram me. I had that happen years ago in a friend’s car where the impatient ghetto asshole rammed us and later wound up getting arrested for it. I would have stayed the course except the dumbass in front of me floored it giving them enough room to push in. And for what? They wound up one car length closer. I Flipped her off and passed when it opened to two lanes. She tried to cut me off again for whatever reason, but missed. In a perfect worl I could have followed her where she was going and beaten the shit out of her. The first time was just ghetto bullshit. The second time was her trying to intentionally cut me off. To me that makes her a candidate for an ass whooping. I hope her car falls apart. Stupid bitch.

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