Today is Monday. Griping about Mondays certainly isn't unique to the pedicab profession, but I suspect that Mondays really are more miserable for us than for most working folk. There are fewer tourists about, and the ones there are don't want a ride, and the ones who do take a ride aren't inclined to pay much for it.
By all rights today should have been even worse than your run-of-the-mill Monday. There wasn't a single convention in the center, which is rare here. There were no cruise ships docked. There were no sports events. There was no holiday. (Technically this week marks the start of Carnival season, but the Mardi Gras tourists won't start arriving for some time yet. )
All the leading indicators were so grim that my boss took pity on the two of us who actually turned up to ride today and decided at the last minute to drop the lease rate. He's normally an upbeat kind of guy, but when I came into the shop at the end of my shift this evening the first words out of his mouth were: "So how bad was it?" At which point I had the delight of breaking the news that I had made more money than I have ever made working the day shift!
I took a Canadian couple on a long ride through the Bywater, and they paid me $100. This was only the second $100 ride of my career. But even without that hundred it would have been an exceptionally profitable day. I can't really explain why. It was just the kind of day where I just seemed to be in the right place at the right time all day long.
I can't wait to see how tomorrow turns out!
By all rights today should have been even worse than your run-of-the-mill Monday. There wasn't a single convention in the center, which is rare here. There were no cruise ships docked. There were no sports events. There was no holiday. (Technically this week marks the start of Carnival season, but the Mardi Gras tourists won't start arriving for some time yet. )
All the leading indicators were so grim that my boss took pity on the two of us who actually turned up to ride today and decided at the last minute to drop the lease rate. He's normally an upbeat kind of guy, but when I came into the shop at the end of my shift this evening the first words out of his mouth were: "So how bad was it?" At which point I had the delight of breaking the news that I had made more money than I have ever made working the day shift!
I took a Canadian couple on a long ride through the Bywater, and they paid me $100. This was only the second $100 ride of my career. But even without that hundred it would have been an exceptionally profitable day. I can't really explain why. It was just the kind of day where I just seemed to be in the right place at the right time all day long.
I can't wait to see how tomorrow turns out!
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