Research Catalog

Title

The other side of midnight : taxi cab stories / Mike Heffernan.

Author

Heffernan, Mike, 1978-

Publication

St. John's, N.L. : Creative Publishers, 2012.

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Details

Description

xiv, 152 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Taxicab drivers in St. John's talk about their jobs, clients, and the city at night.

Subject

• Taxicab drivers > St. John's
• Taxicab drivers > St. John's > Social conditions
• Taxicab industry > St. John's
• Taxicab drivers > St. John's > Anecdotes

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction -- A Hard way of Life -- The Good ol' Days -- The Early Taxicab Industry -- The Last of the Old Taxi Men -- It was Steady Go-Steady Belt -- The Best Taxi Driver in St. John's -- The Taxi Inspector -- The Knight Riders -- Concrete Jungle -- Dead Time -- Financial Hardships -- Sacrifices -- Raising a Family -- Self-Discipline -- The State of the Economy -- All they Were Interested in Was Eating -- Cut off at the Knees -- There is No Life as a Taxi Driver -- I'm Stuck at This -- Just a Girl Driving a Taxi -- Poor-Mouthing -- I need This Job -- A Bunch of Cutthroats -- If You Want to Drive, Get you own cab -- Have a Nice Day, My Darling -- What it All Boils Down to -- The Nature of the Business -- Sky Pilots -- The Downtown Rush -- A Vicious Cycle -- Make the Most of what you got -- Cribbing -- Costing Regular business -- They got to Get These Cars moving -- The Last Time We Got a Raise -- A Peaceful Demonstration -- Fighting over Scraps -- The City's Teeming Entrails --^
• Scenes from the Underground -- Over Aggressive-That?s One Way to Put it -- I Won't Touch a Drop -- The Rich Man's Drug -- An Eye-Opening Experience -- A Dealer on Every Corner -- Reapers -- Stolen Meat -- On the Rob -- I Got to Move My Stuff -- A Backyard Tour of Duckworth Street -- Who Flushed down the ecstasy down the toilet? -- The Government pays a Fortune -- What Happens Between you and the Driver -- There Are No Prostitutes in St. John's -- A Common Practice -- Keep it in your Pants -- What Happened to the Business? -- Hacked To Death -- Work-Related Violence -- A Hard Case -- Getting Set up -- Just out of Dorchester -- A Sobeys Bag Full of Beer -- Guys like you in Prison -- Level-Headed -- I'm Not a Tough Person -- Going to War -- You Can't Leave the Scene of an Accident -- Getting Sick in the Back Seat -- Zombies -- I Never Heard Nothing Until I Got into This -- Dealing with Drunken Women -- They Don?t Know They're in the Car -- You Get Fucked over, and No One Gives a Fuck --^
• Doing the Cops a Favour -- A People Person -- Hotheaded -- Violence is not the Answer -- Honesty is the Road to Poverty -- A Note on Sources ? Acknowledgements.

ISBN

• 9781897174968
• 1897174969

LCCN

^^2012518249

OCLC

808199814

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library