Its a Hard Shift Being a Taxi Driver With a Massive Nose

My story is very personal and to be honest, I have trouble talking about it.  That is why I have chosen to share my experience here in the safety of this blog.

For arguments sake we shall say that my name is Dave ( maybe it is, maybe its not).  I have been working as a black taxi driver on the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland.  As a city Glasgow gets a lot of bad press for drinking violence and sectarianism crime.  To be honest it is soft as a new born puppy these days.  Well in comparison to what it was like 20 years ago anyway.  The fake dimond earing sporting, chino wearing, overly hair gelled guys today simply do not measure up to the Grade A hard men that roamed the streets back in the day.

I digress slightly.  The reason I am writting this is that I have a very big nose and it has been effecting my confidence bady for the last twenty years and is gettign worse as time goes on.  It has even got tot he point where I am considering cosmetic surgery.  I am pretty thick skinned, as you can imagine being a Glasgow taxi drive I hear a lot of abuse.  But the comments about my big nose always hurt the most.  I have been called everything from “beaky” to ” ya big snibbed freak”.  I cant lie anymore it hurts.

I feel so very self conscious as I turn round to talk to passengers and take their money.  Essentiall they are stairing straight at my massive nose in profile, perfectly framed by the talking window of my taxi.

I have almost made my mind up to do something positive about this nose situation.  In Glasgow it is not common place for men to have cosmetic surgery but I feel like I have no option.  I wouldn’t do anything daft like get surgery in Scotland.  Although it would be possible to pass of the bruising and bandages as the after effects of a pub fight or blame it on an unruly passenger. No I am considering cosmetic surgery Bristol, this is far enough away from eveyone I know and should give me time to heal.

Wow, I feel so much better already for sharing this.  It has literally blighted every day of my existence.  SO here is to 2012 the year when I will get a nice new nose.