{"id":434,"date":"2008-10-05T12:35:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T12:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=434"},"modified":"2009-08-14T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T13:40:16","slug":"be-bookedbe-insured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Be Booked&#8230;.Be Insured&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is the message displayed on all private hire cars these days (well in Brum anyway).  So after a good night out I staggered to Digbeth (Institute) where the private hire cars normally pick people up.  Not having any preferred taxi company to choose I decided to call the numbers on a car.  5 Star I believe they are called.  20 minutes they said, so after 30 minutes I called another company 20 minutes they said, so after 30 minutes I gave up.  Normally when pissed off with private hire I&#8217;ll flag down a black cab.  However with the memory of the \u00a318 bumrape on my last black cab journey I decided that being a stubborn twat was in order and decided to continue to sit in the bus shelter.<\/p>\n<p>After a while, and mainly because the Kerryman was at kicking out time (04:00) I decided that the private hire waiting seemingly for no-one might do the non booking dodgy deal.  So I asked how much to Yardley, \u00a310 was the reply, so I jumped in and went home.  <\/p>\n<p>He was breaking the law, however I was cold and wet and really needed to get home.  It&#8217;s a bit shite that Travel West Midlands don&#8217;t appear to have a decent night bus service anymore (I&#8217;m sure they used to have one on the major routes until 2 or 3 in the morning).<\/p>\n<p>So welcome to a night out in brum, don&#8217;t stay out too late as the buses don&#8217;t run and the taxis are fairly shite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is the message displayed on all private hire cars these days (well in Brum anyway). So after a good night out I staggered to Digbeth (Institute) where the private hire cars normally pick people up. Not having any preferred taxi company to choose I decided to call the numbers on a car. 5 Star I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be Booked&#8230;.Be Insured&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}