Pome: My Uber Driver And The Yarn Of A £256 Fare - X 2

Oh yes

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What a day to be out. Pic: Paradisio Publishing

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My Uber Driver And The Yarn Of A £256 Fare - X 2

you get in the car at Disco’s in Didsbury and the driver is chatty and we pull away and the driver never stops jawing and by the time we hit the hamlet i want bed, it’s gone midnight, City beat Leicester in a drab affair, i filed my final with quotes all in - rare - and as we pull up to my drum the driver starts in on another yarn i do not want to have to listen to and he says:

‘i took a lad from the next street along from your house the other day to Bradford and when we got there he said, “can you take me back i’ll only be a minute?”, and i said, “sure”, and he did something on his phone, a girl came out the place we were parked up outside, and she came to the lad’s window and he wound it down and slowly, very slowly, raised the middle finger to her and slowly, very slowly, wound the window back up and told me, “back home please”, and we turned around and drove back to here.’

the Uber driver looked at me

i looked at the Uber driver.

he said, ‘that cost him £256 one way and the same coming back - just to do that’

i got out the Uber

into the dark

into midnight