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Sorry Boss I've Pranged the Cab

These stories are about drivers and their excuses when they have hit the cab

HandBrake:

In the old mini cab days if a link operator was very busy we would call out to all the cars on shift that night, "right lads we are very busy , throw your handbrakes out the window and get a move on".
Now some of the mini cabs many years ago were not quite up to to-days standard to say the least, and this was was one of those very busy nights, when this new driver heard the "throw your handbrakes out of the window" from the link operator. So he gave a mighty tug on the handbrake, oh dear, the handbrake just came out in his hands, so he threw the handbrake straight out of the window. The following day having explained to the cab owner what he had done the driver was told to go and find it, and was called a few names that are not yet in the English dictionary, he drove down the road where he had thrown it and saw to old ladies standing in a garden looking baffled. Sure enough there was this large black handbrake firmly stuck in the lawn , and he now had to try and explain to the ladies how it got there.

Car Wash:

A driver who worked for one of the Islands biggest taxi companies was sent down to the local car wash to get his taxi cleaned ready for a wedding. He arrived back at the taxi garage headquaters some one hour later, dripping from head to foot in soap suds, a drivers door reshaped so much that it resembled more of a pear than anything else, and inside the car there was enough soap suds to have washed the entire Premier Leagues football kit for a year. He had , by what could be gathered decided to sit in the car as it went through the carwash, somehow, of course he did not know how, the drivers door opened as it was halfway through the wash, he was a bit of a pannicky type, a bit like a real life Frank Spencer, so with him pulling the door, the car wash tugging at the door, you can guess the rest.

Steam Roller:

A full time driver got up one morning, walked up to his cab to start a shift. He noticed that the car was a different shape than the night before. So he called up the office manager to find out who drove the car the night before, and explained that the bumper was well reshaped and some of the rear lights were broken. The office manager contacted the driver who had been on duty the night before, but the driver told the office manager that he could not remember doing anything that would have damaged the car. Then about one hour later, this evening driver rang back, and said to the office manager, " you know i have been thinking about this bump to the cab, it could have been when i reversed into a Steam Roller ".

Open Top:

Many years ago, one early midsummer evening a driver was sent to a hotel on the Cobo coast road to pick up two passengers for St.Peter Port.
It was a warm evening, but with quite strong winds. The driver arrived at the hotel, picked up his two passengers who were very well dressed in posh outfits, as they were going to a big function.
The driver drove out the gate and unto the Cobo coast road.
All of a sudden a big freak wave hit the sea wall, and came straight over, landing smack on to the car.
Not much of a problem really,........ that is if you have remembered to close the sunroof...................they were drenched, like you have never seen drenched in your lives, even a piece of Vraic finished up on the womans lap, that made her jump, oh boy they were not two very happy people as you can imagine.