Celebrity Fares

This is actually an issue I covered in a previous blog a couple of years back. However, I'm using this trimmed down method of blogging from now on, as I find it a helluva lot less complicated than the aforementioned way.

I've had quite a few famous people over the years. Not any really world famous names though. Some fairly well known actors, TV personalities, and various footballers.

Among the actors I have had are John Hannah, Alex Kingston, Peter Mullan, Ford Keirnan, Greg Hemphill, Paul Reilly, Johnny Beattie, Kenneth Cranham, Alex Norton, Colin McCredie, John Michie, Shellsuit Bob, PC Plum.

Sporting personalities included Neil Lennon, Walter Smith, Tom Boyd, Richard Gough, Graeme Sharpe, Tony Watt, James Forrest, Colin Jackson, Craig Moore, Claudio Reyna, Alan Thompson, Jim White, Gabby and Kenny Logan, Iain Ferguson, Maurice Edu, Jim Delahunt, Iain McColl, Iain Durrant.

Other dignitaries who have had the pleasure of travelling in my cab are Donald Findlay, Kevin Bridges, Wendy Alexander, Shereen Nanjiani (no laughing at the back there, guys), Justin Currie, the drummer from Franz Ferdinand and the guys from Snow Patrol.

Not exactly the A-List, but they were all really nice apart from the alleged footballer, Craig Moore, who was a bit of a dick.

These folk are just ordinary human beings out on a night out. I mean, it must be difficult for them to go out and enjoy a peaceful evening without some twat approaching them in a bar or restaurant and uttering the Classic line, "It's you, isn't it?". How the hell do you respond to such inane drivel?  "No, it's not me, it's someone else".

When they travel in my taxi, I try to talk about something other than their fame and what they do for a living, although sometimes that can be difficult. Especially if you know fuck all else about them. Some have told me they don't mind folk uttering their famous catchphrase at them, as it flatters them that people remember.

Maybe one day, if I ever achieve fame myself, then they will be telling their kids, "I was in that Gerry McDonald's cab once".