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Good Experience With Cab
June 10, 2010 | Comments Off on Good Experience With Cab
I’m at the intersection of Market ST and North Harvard ST, that annoying intersection where it’s sometimes faster to take a left into the parking lot near the intersection than staying with the traffic and taking a left at the light.
This day I decide to stay with the traffic and take a left at the light. Behind me there’s a cab turning towards me from the right lane. I’m thinking “What the FUCK? Does this guy want to cut me off?”
I shake my head. “Cabs really are the worst drivers,” I think.
I look behind me, at the cab driver and try to give a look that is a combination of “what the fuck are you doing?” and “No, I’m not moving or letting you cut me off so you can take a left, even if it means that you’re going to crash into me.” I guess I was a little “testy” that day.
And then suddenly the guy rolls down his window. Now I’m thinking, “well at least he’s gonna ASK me to move.”
And then he says. “Hey, were you at Cleveland Circle?”
I don’t understand him at first. “What?”
“You were at Cleveland Circle, weren’t you?” he says and smiles.
I say. “Yeah, that’s where I ride from.”
“You beat me, I was there too. Good job!”
I feel my ego growing by the second and an uncontrollable warmth towards this cab driver. “Thanks, man? So I did good?”
“Yeah!” he says, laughing and shaking his head. The light turns green and he drives straight through the intersection onto Western AV.
I wish I had more interactions like this with drivers!
