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and i don’t know, oh, where i’m goin’, i just want to be left alone
I worked my first Tuesday night shift in over half a decade this past week and it was an odd feeling. I kept getting flashbacks to the long nights back before I got sober, driving around for long...
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conversations on the phone, til the break of dawn
And I know he was drinking and I know guys get weird when they drink… But I’m not, I’m not lying to you. I would not lie to you, okay? Yeah, I’m here. I’m here. I don’t know what you want me to say. I…...
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all in a line, they’re all in a line, like adult books
Last night I drove more miles in one night than I have in 2013 – two hundred and twenty-two to be exact. I pulled an SFO off the street at the Hilton on Kearny, sat fought the traffic of Montgomery to...
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i was walking with a ghost
She flagged me at Larkin and North Point, right in front of Ghirardelli Square. I saw her before I saw the group of dudes wearing Tapout and Affliction shirts and even though they were on the near side...
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i’m flying in my taxi, taking tips and getting stoned
Last night after midnight was like the opening scene from Omega Man, and I was Chuck Heston driving through The City. Except I was in a taxi working, not in a convertible fleeing the mutants from The...
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sleep all day, out all night, i know where you’re goin’
I was out deep in the Sunset last night, dropping off one of my regulars before getting ready to hightail it back to the garage and go home. I was a little cranky, having been on the road for the full...
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you’d better do somethin’ quick, she’s your lover now
- Hayes and Divisidero please. - Look, honey, if you didn’t want to go, we didn’t have to go. - It’s fine, I wasn’t going to stay there by myself. We came as a couple and that’s how we left. - I could...
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you southern girls got a way with your words and you show it
I picked up a pretty young girl last night in the Mission and took her back to Oakland. Her second night after moving to the bay area had been rewarded with a couple of not-so-slick opportunists trying...
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ain’t no right or wrong, nothing’s carved in stone, it ain’t cheatin’ if you...
Some rides you remember as if they happened last night. I was driving down Townsend past the Caltrain when the computer started beeping at me. 500 block, odd side, Brannan Street – only one address it...
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ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re trying to be so quiet
Last night was only the third Monday night I’ve worked all year, which makes it only the third Monday night I’ve worked since 2007. The third Monday night shift since I gave up night shifts for days,...
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