The angels in heaven are crying.

 There was a car crash last week 5 people in their 20s were killed.

The grief felt by everyone  in the area is beyond measure.

When I turned 17 I got my first license and I drove with my father to Armagh to Traynors scrap yard to get some second hand car parts. My dad told Mr. Traynor that I had driven up and this was my first trip on my new license

Hold on he said.  Micheal you look after this gentleman while I educate this new driver.

We did not use seat belts back then and he showed me how on impact your body impacts with the steering wheel and the bracket which holds the steering column in place can break both your legs below the knee.

Hair and blood embedded in the windshield and even teeth implanted in the dashboard.

Mostly these people  were in a hurry, making up 5 or 10 minutes, they never made it.

Do you see this car here? I will take the wheels and engine off it and it will be crushed.

No one wants to see that car again. Why not I asked, it looks brand new.

He opened up the car and under the front seat the pulled out a knitted baby's boot. They were going along, someone in the back holding the baby, they swerved and the baby hit the roof of the car as the car tumbled over. No one ever wants to see that car again.

I did not do this to frighten you. But some day you will see a wide load ahead and for a second you will hesitate and hang back.

I was back at the scrap yard a few years ago and I told that story to the assistant.

"Grandad would treat that trip as a civil duty, he saved many lives"

He brought  me round the back where there was a yellow sports car and he told me that the young lad who was driving it tumbled it upside down and as there was no roll cage on the car he was decapitated 

Be careful out there, the crash might not be your fault 

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Bad bad service.

 Virgin is a company which provides internet TV and other technical services here in Ireland. 

Yes they also run an airline, but who would go with a company which would not go the whole way. Anyhow to keep it brief my wife put both our phones to Virgin and I really didn't know anything until someone told me that my phone must be broken as they couldn't contact me for a month. 

Wow ! I had been cut off. They gave me a new number without telling me.

I had the service from WhatsApp and I contacted people via WA as well. 

Now when you ring Virgin there is a hold on time of 30 to 40 minutes. Then you talk to a very polite Indian person. But they cannot find your phone number or your account number your name and address means nothing.

So I wrote to them and delivered a letter by hand to them in their office.

A week later there was no reply ??

So you have this massive group of workers who don't have access to the customers files while the big machine just trundles on.  

A little complaints box would be great.

My wife got through  a few times more and they told her that it would be all fixed by Monday. Not yet after a few more attempts.

Anyhow that is my 10c worth and what would a taxi driver know? 

By the way Virgin dug up the same  spot outside my house 3 times in the last 12 months.

This is another unbelievable story. 

Aldi East wall rd in the car park a Chinese lady in a new car was pulling in and she was going to rip the whole side of the car until I stopped her. I convinced her to step out and I showed her what she was doing wrong. Then I saw it No insurance No tax disc No number plates.

She told me that she just bought the car and drove it here. WAIT FOR IT. NO DRIVING LICENSE. I was gobsmacked completely. 

She bought the car and drove away. Listen I said please ring a friend who has a car and they will explain what you have to do.

I picked up a few things in the shop and shadowed her. Then back at the car I told her that I would have to drive her home and she promised to talk to her friends about all the things you have to do to drive a car. How the garage had not put number plates on the car is beyond me.

When I drove the taxi you would see something and say 

"Well I have seen everything now"

2 weeks later you would be saying it again.

But that Chinese lady she really took the biscuit. 

Death and taxes RIP

 The news of my long time school friends death came to me from Australia. Instant death by a heart attack. 

Same age as myself I had just sent him a YouTube clip just before he died. 

So do your taxes by the month and by years end there will be no pressure.

You have no idea how much work my wife put into my tax recently. 

Her and 2 accountants