by robertdreed » Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:07 pm
Ah, those limousine services...as a cab driver, I've heard a lot of stories from drivers. <br><br>Limo was never my thing, as it's on-call, and I always preferred the increased flexibility of cab driving. Limo work tends to take over one's life...similar to bartending, in that respect. La vida loco. I prefer la vida semi-loco. <br><br>I've had two different individuals in different cities tell me that they had to get out of the business because they had developed on-the-job cocaine dependencies. And I've had others tell me that that's one of the reasons that they enjoy the job so much. <br><br>In D.C., I'm surprised that there isn't a Dumb Chauffeur Service, hiring deaf-mutes exclusively. <br><br>Parenthetically, I've always been rather disappointed about the sex worker/hustler/dominatrix industry for their mostly ironclad adherence to the code of Omerta in regard to their clientele. <br><br>I realize that it's something of a professional ethic. I also realize that in terms of personal empowerment, secret knowledge of elite deviance = power. But when the clients are also political oppressors, simultaneously posing as moral paragons and damaging the society as a whole with their balancing act of "elite impunity for the privileged + sado-moralism for the masses", I think it's time for their silent partners in decadence to break their silence before this society mutates into the Armageddonist version of <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>100 Days Of Sodom</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. The cards won't be worth much unless they get laid down. So perhaps at long last, it's finally time to roll it up and cash out. Like <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>The Sting</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->... <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 4/28/06 2:04 pm<br></i>
