Max, friend of my son was round at the weekend. Tales of drunkeness. Best one was the time he was completely legless, grovelling on the pavement, in Brighton, his girlfriend unable to help him up and home.
So she called a taxi. Taxi turns up, taxi driver takes one look at Max, and unsurprisingly refuses to take him. Much animated debate. Taxi driver fecks off.
She calls another taxi company. Taxi turns up, driver sees Max on the pavement refuses the fare.
Girl, distraught, begs the driver, "please, please, you must take him, he's not drunk, but disabled, and some bastard has stolen his wheelchair!"
Taxi driver visibly shocked, pours the boy into the taxi, and all the way home the driver is muttering things, "what kind of world do we live in", "poor boy", "if I could get my hands on those thieving scrotes" etc etc.
We reckoned she was good marrying material.
PS anyone remember UMIST pyjama parties, really big do's in the seventies. I was there, it was a war zone.

