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Sound Off Sam recently reached it\u2019s first anniversary. I have to say, it\u2019s been an interesting year to write a Blog for the guys at Taxi! Board Game.<\/p>\n
Admittedly, my chronicles as a cabbie during a pandemic are unlikely to have the same historical significance as another famous diarist called Sam, whose peeps into life during the English Restoration became one of the most important historical sources of the great events, including the Plague, that occurred during that period.<\/p>\n
My blog may be more Adrian Mole than Samuel Pepys but I still like to daydream in a long wait at a taxi rank that, years from now, a conscientious historian will stumble across the archives of the Taxi! Board Game blog page and Sound Off Sam will be heralded for it\u2019s Everyman insights into lockdown life. I occasionally drift away from the boredom of driving downtime by imagining tourists flocking to a museum dedicated to the Coronavirus Chronicles of a Cabbie. I\u2019ve even thought what the exhibits would be:\u00a0 loo rolls, fashion face masks, repeats of Lorraine<\/em> on a continuous loop, interactive Zoom calls, a replica of Queen Lorraine II and, of course, a wide range of Taxi! Board Games for visitors to play.<\/p>\n My daydreams of immortality were disturbed recently with a rare fare. We reflected on the past year. Read on for my latest Sound Off, Cabbie-Punter privilege applied as usual\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cOh! Sorry, sir. I was away in a different world.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I\u2019m working. Hop in.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhere to today?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll have you there in no time, even in rush hour\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo, I wish. No such thing during lockdown. Just lots of hush hours.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThanks, I like to think of myself as a bit of wordsmith. I actually do a bit of writing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA Blog for my sponsors at Taxi! Board Game.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a light hearted mix of my personal life, insightful Sound Offs and Lorraine Kelly,\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYeah. From the morning telly.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell, she\u2019s just lovely. British Broadcasting royalty. Now there\u2019s a vacancy in the Royal family they should offer the position to Lorraine. Make her Royal status official.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHa-ha. It looked they just warmed him up for the cameras. I reckon they\u2019ve been told there\u2019ll be no refund on the venue and catering so they\u2019re keeping him going for his 100th<\/sup> birthday bash.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNah. Don\u2019t worry.\u00a0 Having a laugh isn\u2019t treason. After the year we\u2019ve all had, we\u2019ve got no choice but to look for the funny side of life, especially when clowns are in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo, not much sympathy. I know they were difficult decisions and I\u2019m big enough to admit to mistakes I made at the start.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPanic buying. I used my stockpile of loo rolls but I\u2019ve still not touched the cartons of UHT milk and the 6 pack of Spam so I get mistakes can be made but I wrote in my Blog right at the start that the clowns should have stepped aside and let the clever ones take charge.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe most clever. Chief Geek, Chris Whitty.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe definitely is. I can\u2019t imagine having banter with him about Prince Philip. But Geek is a compliment. Blessed are the Geek: for they shall protect us from Coronavirus\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cErr. Not exactly. Sound Off Sam Para 4 Blog 2. I borrowed from the bible though.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think he did all he could. We\u2019d definitely be in a much worse place if Bozo and Cocko the Clowns had been left to it. Just look at what happened in America.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI know. Watching him at a Coronavirus press conference was scarier than watching the creepy Clown from It<\/em>. I still owe my mad Uncle Hamish a personal apology after comparing Trump to him in one of my Blogs.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, really unfair. But Trump\u2019s horror show made our circus act look harmless in comparison.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHa-ha.! Yeah and honking on one of those old fashioned horns. I remember saying to a punter it\u2019s a taxi driver\u2019s privilege to do U-turns but if I drove as erratically as those clowns in charge I\u2019d lose my cabbie licence.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m getting a sense of Deja-Vu. I predicted an A-grade for my Taxi Exam re-sit!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGood question. Based on the evidence…I\u2019d give them a D.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo, that includes the work on the vaccine roll-out. And they\u2019re only getting good marks for that because they got somebody cleverer to do their homework.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe NHS. They all deserve an A-grade for the last year and a fair pay rise. Right, here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c\u00a38 please.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s very generous of you. I enjoyed the banter too. You never know. We may just have written history.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi folks, Sound Off Sam recently reached it\u2019s first anniversary. I have to say, it\u2019s been an interesting year to write a Blog for the guys at Taxi! Board Game. Admittedly, my chronicles as a cabbie during a pandemic are unlikely to have the same historical significance as another famous diarist called Sam, whose peeps …<\/p>\n