A Pizzazz Magazine Exclusive

Publisher Don Lemmon

When I worked for Yellow Cab they used one specific woman cab driver and HBO followed her 'camera loaded' cab around with a 'wired production van' to tape the shows.

The 'Taxicab Confession' show paid the cab company to rent that cab and even driver. By the way...

since that show came out (about 3-4 years ago), probably 33% of the customers ask "Are we on Taxicab Confessions?"

....and the possibility alone seems to make them go into extreme acts of wildly exhibitionistic behavior.

If you knew some of the things I've REALLY dealt with in a cab you would hardly believe it.

Example: One night I picked up an older woman from the hospital.

Her husband just died. When I let her out of the cab we talked for about 30 minutes and she was crying in my arms.

Then my next ride was four insanely funny. An Australian woman who was definitely in 'party mode' and making the lewdest remarks I've ever heard climbed in....

The next ride was five New Jersey guys who looked like they stepped out of 'Goodfellas' asking me to find them some hookers.

After that I picked up a 'crack freak' that kept me waiting in some frightening back alley while they were having an argument with his screaming mother because he didn't save any crack for her.... There's more.

The next ride was a family from France whose father and his 12-13 year old daughter are sitting in the front seat and the young girl is doing some VERY strange rubbing around her father's thigh, while the mother is smiling at me from the back seat....

Next ride is 5 of the sweetest, most innocent-type young girls ALL wearing giant wedding dresses with lace almost covering the front windshield....

Then a Texan who just lost $40,000 at the casinos (and definitely not too happy about it at all) climbed.... All in one night...

Then, I pick up a young couple and the girl is unconscious from drinking too much.

Her boyfriend is crying and asking me what we should do. I thought it was extremely romantic (in an odd way) because she was throwing up on him and he didn't care one bit.

We both revived her and she suddenly becomes wide alive and one of the most comical girls I've ever seen trying to speak Bulgarian until her boyfriend says

"What the hell are you talking about? Sir, she's off-her-rocker....she doesn't even know any foreign languages...she's from Oxnard!"

The next ride is a Michigan couple that came here to a Ministry Convention and end up praying for my soul while I am unloading their luggage at the airport.

I go home after a night of 30 such rides and my mom asks how my night was.

I just say.... "Oh, it was all right Mom...just another night. What's for dinner?"

I've driven over 50,000 carloads and remember almost every ride.

How could I NOT!

It was still nice having someone listen to the insanity of my life in Las Vegas for a minute, thanks!

Written by Mr Taxi Cab who is a real Las Vegas based taxi driver.