Maintenance

The idea of this blog is this: You have hailed a taxicab - this is the resulting cab ride. Cabby is the driver, you are the “Fare.” Cabby will decide where we are “going.”

The ride today is to the scheduled maintenance shop.

I used a Goodyear Tire Company retail store at 36^th and Old Seward Highway for routine and preventative maintenance every other Tuesday at 10 AM by scheduled appointment.

In the taxicab business in Anchorage, Alaska (think COLD winter for 7 months) there were two kinds of cab owners. One kind did regular and preventative and scheduled maintenance and the other kind did ‘repairs.’

I had a fleet of ‘regularly scheduled maintenance’ cabs. As a result, my cabs broke down only when a tire gave out and once when an Anchorage Transit Bus ran a stop sign and caused a wreck. (I was highly compensated for down time and repairs.)

This will be the first of few regularly scheduled maintenance rides. I will do the future routine and preventative maintenance when the cab is parked when at all possible.

These postings are on any variety of topics of my selection. I may or may not want to take the cab where a fare's comments want to steer, as the blog in this case is being “driven” by “Cabby.” You can have your own cab for a day (get your own blog!) if you want to pay me the taxicab daily lease fees for one of my other cabs.

I was “Cabby” in taxicab number 54 of the taxicabs in Anchorage, and have kept this moniker as a proud badge. I will always be in charge of this cab and its safety and its passengers. I never had an injury to any of my fares, and will be careful not to injure you while on any of these cab rides. I just want to clarify that I mean physically injured, I am not sure about other injuries real or imagined.

I also had cabs numbered 51, 113, 115, or 121 and a few others I have forgotten. I always had a special place in my head for car 54 however as it was the first and co-incidentally my last taxicab. They even had a series on TV called; "Car 54, Where Are You?" Any one remember that?

I have received blog suggestions that I today am starting to respond to, so bear with me this time.

I did away with the classy looking White on Black background and increased the font size.

I am going to make more Carriage Returns and insert a few more blank lines and indentations.

I changed the comment queue and there is a second place to comment.

I am so happy to be back to posting. I regard this as fun and get some sort of pleasure when I ‘turn on the meter’ (which is how a taxicab makes money.)

The second place to ‘comment’ is to lets-take-a-ride@hotmail.com. I am the owner of that e mail address and only I will read what is posted to that address.

Since you rode this far with me today, the Goodyear store's free popcorn and coffee are on me. The womens ice hockey game we watched outdoors on the rink behind the tire store was won by my daughter Mandee with a shootout goal. Her Pueblo team beat the Denver Spitfires, the Park City Predators and the Fort Collins Flames to win the Mothers Day Tournament.

Thank you.

CABBY