Sometimes you may not remember exactly how you got back to your room, but chances are that your cab driver does. They may even laugh about your antics to themselves every now and then.

Lauren, who asked to have her last name remain private, has been a taxi driver for A-1 Courtesy Cab for seven years. She usually tends to a group of students that make her their regular driver. As a result, she does not get many random drunken students. In fact, she said she avoids them when she can.

‘When I see kids walking on the wrong side of the street and being crazy, I try not to pick them up,’ she said as she thought back on her worst customers.

Lauren said she has been told many times that she is the only taxi driver for whom students do not jump out of the car without paying. She said she maintains a good relationship with a lot of the students that she drives for. There are even a few girls that will text her ‘help’ whenever they are at a bad party or desperately need picking up, and she quickly drives over and drives them back to campus, or to their preferred location.

Though she has been very lucky with her customers and does not regularly have to clean out puke from her back seat, she does get the occasional crazy story to tell.

One night she dropped off a male student Downtown. At that time he was fully clothed and sober. After four hours of driving around and picking up and dropping off other customers, the male student called her again and asked her to come pick him up at the same bar.

She pulled up to the sidewalk to find him standing outside in his underwear and socks with a large black garbage bag in hand.

He explained to her that he drank so much he ended up vomiting all over his clothing. A bartender was kind enough to give him a bag to put his soiled clothes in, but he did not have anything to change into, so he was left with no choice but to go home in his skivvies.

It sounds like a good example of a ‘would you rather ‘ ‘ but Lauren thinks most people would have chosen to go back smelly and clothed instead of almost nude.