Cabs Are For Kissing
Saturday, May 26, 2007

Kangaroo Exchange Student

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Now here's something different. I was taking a fare of three cheerful ladies from the Upper West Side to Central Park South last Saturda...
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Friday, May 18, 2007

Australian Bullet Story

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This Karma Vs. Coincidence thing seems to have a karma of its own. What I mean is, ever since I wrote that post a few weeks ago I've h...
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Monday, May 07, 2007

Just Another Saturday Night

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It's hard to drive a cab in New York on a Saturday night without seeing something or hearing about something that's basically outrag...
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Saturday, May 05, 2007

Springtime For Fido

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It's springtime in New York and a young dog's fancy turns to thoughts of dragging his owner out into the beautiful weather for a str...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Chinese Call Girl

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Isn't it amazing what can happen when you put your attention on something? Within 24 hours of writing in my last post that I sometimes s...
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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Contact

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Contact - some would say it's the most basic of human needs, perhaps even more important than food. As a taxi driver I am often witness ...
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Monday, April 16, 2007

Traffic Jam Connoisseur

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I was traveling south on Broadway a few days ago with a passenger in the cab when I unexpectedly hit bumper-to-bumper traffic at around 83rd...
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Saturday, April 07, 2007

Karma Vs. Coincidence

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I recently drove a woman to Brooklyn who was quite interested in knowing which celebrities I've had as passengers in my cab over the yea...
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Sunday, April 01, 2007

An April Fool's Day Story

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Here's a story from the vault - April 1, 2003, 8:30 pm. The war in Iraq had just begun. A young guy and his girlfriend, both about 19 ye...
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Monday, March 26, 2007

Long-Haired Peanut

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It's dog time once again. Traveling with me recently from Hell's Kitchen to the Upper West Side were Peanut, a long-haired chihuahua...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Characters

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Some recent ones... Sunday night, 3:48 am, 49th and Broadway . A twenty-something, good-looking female comes out of the Playwrights Tavern, ...
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Saturday, March 17, 2007

Television Interview

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Well, I had my two and a half minutes of fame last week (I don't get the full fifteen). I did an interview for a television show called ...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

Sketches

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Usually when I write a post I'm trying to make some kind of a point - choosing certain people or incidents which illustrate a theme - bu...
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Saturday, March 03, 2007

The Monster City of the World

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I suffered through two humiliations recently, both of them occurring in the same shift. The first was at the hands of a 14-year-old boy who ...
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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Aqua Dog

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My first fare of the night last Saturday went from Midtown to the Upper West Side with three passengers in the back seat: a young woman name...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Undercover Taxi

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Take a look at this picture. What do you see? Good guess, but you're wrong! It's actually a police car. I mentioned in my last post ...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Cops And Casting Directors

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It's often been said that New York is a city of infinite variety but, to be more accurate, I prefer to say it's a city of infinite r...
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Friday, February 02, 2007

The Ding

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Bad karma is like bad weather. You're doing nothing out of the ordinary, or at least that's how it seems, and then suddenly out of n...
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Saturday, January 27, 2007

Art Buchwald Made Good Copy

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A few days ago Art Buchwald , the American polical satirist, died at the age of 81. I had him in my cab once and, in recalling that ride, I ...
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

The Wisdom of the Carrot

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Every night one or two passengers, on the average, will tell me they're in a BIG rush. The implication (or direct message) being that I ...
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

The Case of the Twisted Testicle

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Are you a people-watcher? Do you ever look at people walking by on the street and wonder what they've been doing all day? In New York, w...
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

More Fun With Street Signs

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Here's a street in Tribeca that always asks a question... This street, also in Tribeca, is for people who can't get to it on time......
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Friday, January 12, 2007

A Pedestrian Thing

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Last night I had a "thing on the street" that involved a pedestrian. I'll tell you about that in a moment, but first a few wor...
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Eugene Salomon
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NYC taxi driver since 1977. Contact: nycgene@msn.com
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