This guy came from Iceland to play poker .He walked out of his hotel on the 9th and vanished.
In nead of a little lift. Kavenagh is your man.
How would you like this job ? Plenty of fresh air,
It is really tough on that Icelandic guys folks, after the first 24 hours things are looking worse.
I hope he will turn up happy, safe and well.
A story from the taxi rank last week.
More and more Indian and Pakisyani drivers are coming on stream.
A driver told me that the guy in his local shop was going for his PSV licence.
A few weeks later he passed ! Smiles all round.
The taxi driver wondered how he got through so fast and the guy told him that he had an interpreter,
he said theat he had problems with English and was provoded with an assistant.
The assistant provided the answers and he flew it.
In this mad country I am living in I really could see it happening.
Like the time FAS sent me an apprentice who was colour blind !
He was very dangerous.
If I was in charge I would require that you have lived in the country for 8 years with no criminal record, have a clean driving licence, be able to speak the language of your country.
Then you can sit the knoweledge and off you go.
Like the way it is in Spain.
I am home in Dublin again and I must say I saw wonderful magic at the 67th Blackpool magic convention.
There is a lot of poverty in the area, loads of druggies and people in wheelchairs, low property prices and no work anywhere.
I was in Weatherspoons pub and a guy walked in and put in around £6 in coins into the fruit machiene.
He flicked the knobs and then he started putting £10 and £20 notes.
It didn't take him long to put in £160 then he lost the £40 that he won on the way.
When I was getting a beer I mentioned it to the barman "That pays my wages" is all that he said.
I did little work today but my tracking was off and I had to get it fixed plus 2 new tyres.
Bad tyres now get a fine and penalty points.
I went to Andrew my computer guy and he took the chip from my dashcam and put it into his computer and as if by magic he recovered the footage of my near miss.
Remember if you have an incident disconnect the power before pulling the chip from the camera.
Blackpool Tower, stsndback Paris
A small part of the 150+ magic dealers
A magic leacture
To me this is a laugh, I spotted abandoned luggage at the airport last year, I had to tell 4 officials before they took action.
Have a look at Hans Klok the fastest magician in the world
Thats life !
I had a load of stuff ready to publish and it just vanished off the screen. This is important please take note If you have a dashcam and you have a near miss. Take the power off the dashcam before you pull out the chip. If you don't the footage may be lost !!!!
So I am heading off to the airport at 5am and landing in Manchester, from there by train to Blackpool Lanconshire "The Costa del sol" of England.
Blackpool hosts the worlds biggest magic convention thousands of magicians from all over the world (and other places) come to see 3 days of lectures,competitions and magic dealers Plus 3 world beating magic shows. There will be as many as 150 dealers selling all kinds of gimmicks.
So as little Paul Daniels once said.
"Magic is great fun, the only way you have more fun is to take your clothes off."
A strange thing happened yesterday. a car had stopped on a dissabled parking space, I pulled over and said "Look at the sign" He looked at me and said "So what? Fuck off" So a bit further on I pulled over and rang the clampers.
Education is very expensive.
He will have to work on his act.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinigar.
Here is a magician that I first met 10 years ago.
He started his lecture by saying that he had an interpeter who would translate the lecture and he would speak Spanish. After 3 minutes he turned to his assistant who spoke only Chinese.
So we will have to carry on with my English..So funny
This is a great movie and features Blackpool strongly.
Once our biggest export, a tanker full heads off to the port
Worth getting this book to see what happened in the Celtic Tiger years
The travelling magician (Google it) Not long until Blackpool
Its like something out of Watership down, but it is just off Parnell St.
So Happy new year to all my Chinese friends, I was in Andrews shop and saw the sunrise on Taemin Square. Thousands of people watching and the raising of the flag was very special for sure.
It will be a cause for big celebration in Dublin. The year of the pig
My little prayer every day doing out is "Dear God give me a chance to do something good today"
So he (or she) gave me two chances today.
The first one was to help a blind man across the Howth Rd.
I saw him and stopped the car and went over, a young enough guy 35 years old or so.
Crossing back I was remarking to him about all the blind drivers who were driving up to a red light not stopping yet they plainly couldn't notice a blind man crossing.
A woman in a car beside me later on rolled down her window and thanked me for helping the man.
I said that once in the City center around 10 years ago I discovered that we were all totally fucked when people crossed at a padestrian crossing and left a poor blind man standing there at the corner.
On the subject of blindness there was a blind girl once who had lost her sense of direction and I pulled over.
Are you having a problem ?
Yes I turned around and now I don't know which way to go.
Where are you going and I will help you.
We crossed the road and I sent her on her way.
She was foreign lady and a musician.
Imagine she had come here and was using a stick to tap her way around
God she was one of the most beautiful women I ever saw.
I was saddned that she was blind.
She asked to let her see what I looked like then she ran her fingers across my face.
You are very handsome and a good man, give yourself a shave and you will look fantastic.
God bless her I remember her forever.
Then a young guy left a bag on the floor of the taxi, he sent me an email and I dropped it over today.
His father was pushing €10 into my hand, which I totally refused.
You cannot take money for being good or doing the right thing.
On the other hand
A customers husband dropped his fone in a taxi and the rang it straight away, 6 or 7 times no reply.
The next day they got a call, "I have your fone I am going into town later and I will give it to you".
She met him and he said "I had to drive into town from Lucan with this, the fare is €35.00
All you can say about a guy like that is that God might put a hump on his back.
So for the last word.
A taxi driver was bringing 4 youths down to Kimmage along the canal, all of a sudden they jumped out at the lights and ran off.
The taxi driver moved on and he herd a fone ringing in the back of the car.
He pulled over and located the fone.
Hey mister I left my fone in your taxi by mistake
Thats not the only mistake you made tonight is it ?
Well we will forget about that for the moment, we can play a little game together.
Lets see if you can guess these animals?
Moo ! Cow...Very good
Bow wow...Dog you are good at this.
Cluck cluck Chicken Marvellous !!!!! and so on
I have had enough of this now. You wont be able to identify the next one so I will tell you before you hear it. This is the sound of your fone being thrown into the canal !!!!!
Its the first of Feburary so you say "Rabbits" for luck on the first day of every month.
Something I saw on the internet about high street shops and shopping centers closing down, the rents were too high, shoplifting and staff pay have all killed the retail stores, remember Clearys and Boyers? More to follow for sure.
Perhaps driverless taxis?
So about the Google girl from Paris?
I typed out a letter about what happned and made some copies, I gave one letter to a German Girl and an Italian girl.
The German was very annoyed about it and said "Why could you do that after someone helped you"
One of the 2 girls contacted her and the French girl rang me and she wanted to pay me.
Body language says a lot.
She didn't say sorry or look me in the eye but she asked me for the "Ticket" which I had.
Not even a thank you.
Really I don't think I will change. It is in my nature to be good and to be honest.
You have one thing in this life for sure. Your reputation Don't just destroy it. you might never get it back.
Before the month goes try to see the collection of Turner water colours in the National gallery
I try to tell you every year!
"The guy said
"If there is anything you could change in your past life....
What would you do?
"For example if you had the choice to change your wife or get a top of the range mew car.
What would your choice be ?"
"Petrol Diesel or electric?" said the taxi driver..
So we head into the silly season for a few weeks
No work !!!
I have friends who fly off to Florida, Spain and the South of France for 6 weeks or more.
I asked one of them why he does that?
Well John. I can get a suntan on both arms !
Stupid question stupid awnser.
The Bkackpool magicians is on the horizon now, my pass has arrived and I have my plane and train booked. Really looking forward to THE MAGICAL WEEKEND OF THE YEAR.
One year I was a while back I was talking to an American guy and we had coffee together, suddenly a beautiful girl pulled up and kissed us both, "This is Kristal" and she sat down, another girl arrived she too kissed us both and sat doen "Trudy" then there was six girls at the table .
"I have one big question for you.
What aftershave do you use?"
He really laughed and said "No these girls are my assistants"He is a really cool person.
I spoke to him a few more times over the weekend.
He made the statue of Liberty vanish and the space shuttle plus London bridge .
He invited me to stay in his Las Vegas home, but I know with all those women in the house there it would a big wait for the bathroom.
Those young card magicians would drive you completery mad.
I just found a video of the guy
You will enjoy this
On Friday I picked up at Google going to the airport, a young lady from Paris.
One the way there she was rummaging in her bag, "Have you lost your passport?"
No I cant find my credit card.
At the airport the MyTaxi app would not take the payment, so she had no cash or credit card.
She gave me her fone number but the texts I sent remain unawnsered!
I took the chip out of the dashcam so I have her image.
In all logic having absolutely no cash or credit card it is hard to see how she could manage at the other end.
I do have contacts in Google, but I have a bad feeling about this it's around €30
Looking back I should have called over the police, but she was saying she had to rush or miss her flight, so she chose to stick the good Samaratin.
C'est la vie !
Today starts a big week in Dublin.
Its the aircraft leasing shindig.
Every high roller in the aircraft industry flys into town.
There was a company called Guinness Peat Aviation in Shannon which developed methods for leasing aircraft. Click here
Well they went bang and when the smoke cleared the workers started up again and Ireland became what it is now a world leader in the aircraft leasing business.
One very smart lad called Tony Ryan when on to set up his own airline Ryanair.
(Cheecky feckers)
They are very interesting folks and love to talk about their adventures.
I got a run out to Finglas and I came back through Ballymun. there was a good looking girl at the bus stop and she waved me down, then with the door held open she yelled for her partntner to hop in. They were fully fledged drug addicts and by God the trip to this point had not been good for them. You have to remember that once they were kids who were full of hope and asperations. The girl was once really very attractive, he was a complete wreck. So I talked to them about their lives, or should I say their coming deaths. "Do ya see here mister, at night you can buy a rock of Crack cocaine for €20 and its like a supermarket up here at night time. Its kids of 12 and 13 that are doing the dealing. They are too young to be arrested so the cops just do nothing at all ant its getting worse every week"
An American lady told me that we aint got any drug problems until crack cocaine or ice comes to town. Just pray when you go to your church, temple or mosque that your family are spared the hell that this pair are going through. So before we reached journeys end I told them that this ride was on the house and not to tell anyone in case the word got out that I was going soft in the head. My Lord they were really happy, not many people cut them any slack in their daly lives.
At present we make a 2 hour each way drive every week to visit our grandchildren. Its great to see them, the next generation growing up strong and healthy. They live in Northern Ireland and we stop for a 10 min break in Castlebellingham, just to stretch the legs. I bought a coffee there before Christmas and put in the cup holder and headed off for the second leg of the journey. 10 minutes later I picked up the cup and the dring was stone cold! I carried on, had the day with the kids. Then coming back we stopped off at the other filling station opposite the one I had come off on. As we drove in a truck came flying towards us. (He was using the entry road as an exit) I went up on the grass and missed him. So I told the lad on the till my story about the truck and he said "I can't do anything about that" I explained that there must be camera footage and he should take a note, he nodded his head. Then I mentioned my coffee and instead of saying sorry about that he said "I can do nothing about that" I am trying a few emails to Applegreen to see if I can get a response.
I went to school with a guy who worked as a radio officer on ships. On more than one occasion he radioed a ship called "the herald of free enterprise" Captain Emergency your bow doors are open. They would clear the port with the big doors at the front of the ship open to clear the fumes foo the car decks. Problem was that the wash from a passing ship would sint the boat. One night this is what happened and the captain said that it was an error. My pal gave evedance that it had happened on many occasions and all his calls were recorded on the emergency waveband..This time it happened at night when no one noticed they were still open. So you see things can be prevented !
Some poor sod took a bad turn on the DART and hundreds of peoples travel plans were thrown in a heap, with the wet morning it was good for taxis though
