From the category archives:
“Talk to people about themselves
and they will listen for hours”
-Benjamin Disraeli
Recently, deep into the morning, as I lingered with my fellow drivers, waiting on line to consummate our payment ritual with the night dispatcher, one of my colleagues eyeballed me and blurted out: “Don’t you just love it when passengers spend the entire trip talking [...]
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Is nothing sacred? Is there no place left where New Yorkers may briefly sequester themselves from our stressful urban landscape?
Apparently not, because in an ironic example of “love me, love my dog,” let us present our candidate for worst of breed - those obnoxious new screens in the backseats of cabs. This invasive, abrasive “technology [...]
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I drive a yellow cab on the night shift, and let me assure you that Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing proposal is a cynical game of three-card monte that unfairly targets working people who can least afford it.
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