Driving For Dollars

Another episode of “As the Tires Turn!”

Seventeen years behind the wheel of a yellow cab and I thought I’d seen it all. Guess again! No matter how long I drive a taxi, there’s always a new and bizarre experience waiting around the corner.

Like last Sunday…I had dropped off a passenger at Mercer and Spring when miraculously (it was 3:30 AM), another fare appeared across the intersection.

Whoa! There was a stroke of luck if ever I saw one. Not quite! The guy was totally nude!

“Wow, man! Nice unit. Is there a reason why you’re nude, dude?” I queried the guy matter-of-factly.

“Uhh…it’s a long story. My friends dared me.”

Whatever! I rode him to Brooklyn where he paid, tipped liberally, and walked out of the cab still naked as a jaybird. Go figure!

So twenty minutes later I was back in Manhattan when a couple closing a bar waved me at Lafayette and 4th Street. The girl pulled up her shirt and spontaneously flashed her bare breasts at me as she walked up to the cab.

Must have been something in the air. Who knows? Now you know why I love driving a cab.

And speaking of oddities, coincidences, and rarities that defy the odds, try this one out! About three years ago, I was working the East Village late one night when I pulled up to a gay bar (“The Tunnel”) at 7th Street and 1st Avenue to catch a ride.

It was the right move. After barely a minute of waiting, a foreign guy jumped into the cab and asked me to take him to 33rd and Lexington. Good enough. I took him up there and returned to the East Village, where I cruised empty for about 20 minutes before returning to the same location to catch my next ride.

One minute later, out came a guy from the bar.

“33rd and Lexington, please,” said the fare. I turned around to discover the same guy taking the same ride — just twenty minutes later.

Geez!?!?! Was I crazy? Does this guy have a twin brother? I asked the man how it came to be that he was repeating his previous ride 30 minutes after he’d taken the…

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