There were 5 well dressed Mexican gentlemen but since we can only take 4 people per cab I called for another unit. They were nice enough guys, talking with each other in Spanish most of the time but not forgetting to include a little English for my sake. I was thinking about how everyone is always going on and on about illegal immigration and how it seems to me that to vilify one group of people, blame them for all our problems is one of the first steps in creating a fascist state. A truly great nation welcomes everybody.
Later I drove a man to the airport who was picking up his wife and kids returning from a vacation in The Philippines. They are from there originally and he'd been working overtime to afford this trip for his family. He asked if I'd been there and of course I haven't. I've had friends stationed there in the past but the bases are gone now. He nodded and said in less than perfect English: yeah yeah.....bases gone.
Drove a young lady, a Torontonian, to Boston and we got to talking about this and that and then I missed the turn-off for her hotel. It cost me 5 bucks too to come back through the tunnel. I told her how sorry I was that I messed up but it was no big deal.
Picked up at the mall going to Canton which with the new rates is $35 but when we got to the house she tossed 30 bucks at me and disappeared into the night before I could do anything. With that big fancy house, she needs the fiver more than I do.
My last fare was a regular nightly customer. He was drunk out of his mind and he started laughing at everything. It was infectious because pretty soon I started laughing and we both couldn't stop. I don't even know what was so funny but it made sense at the time.
I think laughter could save the world or at least your soul. Go ahead you there at home, try it. Ha ha ha. Feel better? No? Oh well who cares.
Later I drove a man to the airport who was picking up his wife and kids returning from a vacation in The Philippines. They are from there originally and he'd been working overtime to afford this trip for his family. He asked if I'd been there and of course I haven't. I've had friends stationed there in the past but the bases are gone now. He nodded and said in less than perfect English: yeah yeah.....bases gone.
Drove a young lady, a Torontonian, to Boston and we got to talking about this and that and then I missed the turn-off for her hotel. It cost me 5 bucks too to come back through the tunnel. I told her how sorry I was that I messed up but it was no big deal.
Picked up at the mall going to Canton which with the new rates is $35 but when we got to the house she tossed 30 bucks at me and disappeared into the night before I could do anything. With that big fancy house, she needs the fiver more than I do.
My last fare was a regular nightly customer. He was drunk out of his mind and he started laughing at everything. It was infectious because pretty soon I started laughing and we both couldn't stop. I don't even know what was so funny but it made sense at the time.
I think laughter could save the world or at least your soul. Go ahead you there at home, try it. Ha ha ha. Feel better? No? Oh well who cares.
1 comment:
HAHAHAHAHHA it DID work! :))))
love ya richie <3
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