TAXI!

With my new job role I have lots of travelling to do. I have passed my theory test and am now saving up to go to Blackpool to do a two day course to pass my practical and then I can start driving about the place.

But until then I have to rely on public transport. Regular readers will be well aware that I am not a fan of this mode of getting about. I normally have to get the bus to the train station, then a train, then a taxi to wherever the hull I am going. It's a three for one.

The main issue is when I get the taxi and I give the place I need to go and they ask me what the quickest way or where abouts it is. "Is that the one near the Tesco?" I have no pigging idea to be fair as I'm new to that part of the country, didn't you just see me come out of the train station?

But today I got a new question. One that stunned me. I got off my train in Tame Bridge Parkway, which as it happens is the worlds smallest train station just outside of Birmingham. I had no money and could spy a Texaco not far off so thought I would walk up there, buy a tasty treat and get some cashback. I explained to them that I needed a taxi and asked if they had a number and also enquired as to what road we were on. "Walsall Road" was the answer. So I stepped outside and called the taxi.

Craig: Hello, I need a taxi from the Texaco Garage on Walsall road please.
Taxi person: Which one?
Craig: The texaco.
Taxi: No which road?
Craig: Oh, sorry. Walsall Road.
Taxi: (a little annoyed) Yeah I heard, but which Walsall Road?

This had me stumped. Why in the hell are there two Walsall roads in this area? More importantly why did they build a Texaco garage on both of these roads? The conversation that followed was basically me describing roughly where I was and what I could see. I mentioned the train station, and some kind of church that I could see, I even named another road name I could see and eventually we found out where I was and a taxi came and picked me up.

As I traveled around in the Taxi I started looking out of the window, as it was too bumpy to read my book, and I noticed something else that was odd. Three houses in a row, on the same side of the road. Numbered: 23, 24 then 25. ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE ROAD?

Birmingham is an odd place, and I don't like that kind of thing.


Not at all.