It's 2:23AM and it's game time!

It's last weekend and I'm coming from Paddock Lane, one of the EZ Riders was playing his guitar there for the first time ever and he was rocking the house. I pull up to the intersection of College Main and Church St., and I'm flagged down buy a group of 2 girls and a guy. They have $3 and want to go to the Factory 3 blocks away. I'm stopped at the intersection and cars are coming up behind me, but the group doesn't want me to move; "Wait don't leave!" they say. They're really excited and want to go, but they were waiting on another girl who apparently had the keys. Of course they have no idea were the other girl is; drunks can't even keep track of where themselves are. There are 4 cars behind me now, but none of them are honking; I love the patient drunks. Finally the group lets me pull forward into the blocked-off section of College Main and then they decide the don't need the 3rd girl. Gah. Not only do they want a ride they want to take a "scenic" route. Gah. They don't know it but that's not going to happen for $3 and 3 people. I go the back way to the Factory, starting down Church Ave., which believe it or not has churches on it. Well one of these churches has a basketball court, which has people playing on at all times of the night. Well the guy asks me to pull into the basketball court and make a circle. He yells something to the players about being able to kick their collective ass, and then I'm told to quickly leave, in the kind of voice drunk people use when they realize that last idea they had wasn't a good one. I pull out and go a ways, turn around to see if I'm being chased and do a double take. "Where the hell is he?!" The guy wasn't there. I'm highly sensitive to any movement in the rickshaw because it throws off my balance, its like this guy just floated off. "He went to play basketball." came the response. I'm like "WHAT?!", he just pissed those guys off and he went to play basketball with them? As a taxi driver I hold a certain amount of responsibility toward my fair, and making sure they aren't getting pummeled kinda counts. "Do I need to go back?" "No, he's fine keep going" said the girls. Well we get to the Factory and they discovered that the guy had the keys to get in. To make a longer story shorter I make the block. $3. When I get to the basketball court theres another pedicab there, with the guy in it! And of course when 2 or more pedicabs are near each other going the same direction that immediately triggers the fares shouting "Race!". Just what I want near the end of the night, a race. Well the other guy had a head start so he won. Oh well. The guy then stood in my way to tell me about his game. He scored a 3 pointer. The other EZ Rider was able to escape, lucky guy. Finally the guy shuts up and gets out of my way, still reveling in his victory. Both he and the girl gave me $3, at least it was more than I expected.