The inspiration for this blog came on a long, drunken walk home on a regular Friday night. When I walk home drunk I always get outlandish thoughts in my head. I'm not talking about Outlandish the multi-award winning hip-hop group based in Denmark, I don't think about them often, actually ever until I did a google search to figure out what Outlandish really meant. Anyway, the thoughts i have walking home drunk are peculiar, odd, and strange.
On a recent walk home, I was thinking in a systematic way feeling cold and tired, when I got the idea for an elaborate delivery service taxi ride. As the 20 minute walk seemed to drag out longer and longer with each shivering step I was passed by 3 taxis, 2 night ride vans, and 6 pizza/sandwich deliverymen.
Although empty night ride cars, and available taxi cabs that do not stop are a real issue, I pushed this out of my mind and thought of an elaborate system in which deliverymen provide a sober ride for people that need a ride home to an area that the deliveryman is delivering. In this system, delivery men would be in a database and their current location and future location would have to be tracked. Patrons who are coming home from bars or other locations would call this deliveryman taxi service and provide information about where they live and where they are. This is where the system becomes outlandish. The system would then access a database of deliverymen who are in a 10 mile radius of the patrons current location, then of the compiled deliverymen near the location, the one that was making a delivery closets to the patrons home would pick the customer up and take them home.
