It wasn't until I bought this cab company that I learned of the "Overnight Society" that rules the roost once the sun goes down in Tempe and Scottsdale. How do I explain this large group of people who don't even get out of bed until four or five in the afternoon...this group of guys and gals who don't get fully dressed until 9pm? Unless you're up and out at that time, unless you see it every night, you would not believe it. It's the drug culture, the bar culture, the dance culture, and in Tempe, it's the "house party culture." These "house parties" are regularly talked about at police shift briefings, they are a part of the culture. The cops will roll up ten car strong on one of them, kids will jump out of the side and back windows of the house, each with cell phone in hand as they speed dial a cab to come and get them out of Dodge. When they are safely in the car they ring up other people at other parties and guess where the cab takes them? Exactly, another house party. Remember Cheers, "where everybody knows your name? Sadly, in this case, think of it this way: "House parties, where nobody knows your name."These kids don't know each other, they're just looking for the booze and the "make out partner". As for 5am, that's exactly the time when we pick these kids up to finally go home. Half dressed and half-witted, they stumble into the cab, and we try and get them home safely. The overnight Society in Tempe, believe it, it exists, especially in the area where Adrienne was walking the day she disappeared.--Cab Guy
Not fun but a lot of stress for them every weekend.
