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You will not have what is mine

There's this taxi driver that thinks he's being slick. He got lucky one night and stumbled upon my private order. He now thinks that he can stake a claim to something that I have history with touching upon 3 years. He did beat me last night by rejecting cash calls that were hitting the board. What does dumb ass did not know if some of these calls were good ones. You can see the photo of here taken at the Safety Harbor spa. I'll take cash call out there any time of the year. What this guy fails to understand is that there is no way I will relinquish this call. The earth will stop revolving on its axis before I give this up.


Location: Tampa, United States

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2016 at 4:36 PM

    Why not your fare call you direct on you phone and then none of this can happen?

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    1. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2016 at 1:03 AM

      these are contract calls that must go through dispatch...even though your companies VP is feeding calls to a St. Pete prius driver to keep him from coming back to Pinellas...Thats a fact, JACK!!!

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