lesser taxi ridership.......

Last night I started driving from usual time around 5.00pm. This was quite an unusual night because by 8.00pm I had only collected metered fares amounting to about $29.00. This amount was way too short of my daily takings and so I decided to take a break and at the same time have an early meal which lasted till 9.00pm. I resumed working non stop till about midnight and not feeling tired, I decided to do overtime after another short break. I counted my takings and it was really bad, only $82.00 I knew it would not be much because I did not ferry enough passengers from the time I started till now and also the trips involved were short ones. I had not driven overnight for quite a long time and so I thought why not continue driving and this time with additional midnight charges added and so by 6.00am, after one more coffee break I was a bit shacked and so had to call it a day. I did my usual taxi wash and clean up then headed home. The total gross income I managed to earn was only $132.00 this was very poor takings and after deducting rental, diesel and sundry expenses, my nett income was $62.00. Taxi ridership has indeed fallen drastically and the lot of us cabbies have to work extra hard to tide over this period of time till near Christmas to recover initial losses with some good bonuses, hopefully........have to go to work now, already 5.00pm.