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Anything could happen. It's warm in here, raining outside, the front door locked. I've got $27.57 in the bank, $28.00 in cash and that's it. Taxi drivers live day-to-day, but this is ridiculous. About a month ago I noticed someone playing tones on my telephone answering machine, so on a hunch, turned it off. Next day, someone hacked it back on with the two-digit code they'd already learned, and left a message! Isn't that freaky? So now I keep the machine totally off the wall, the other phone muted, rain on the window. That's good enough for me. |
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Heu, my Vietnamese friend, warned me early this morning down at the airport. "If you leave the taxi to use the restroom, they'll give you a fifty dollar ticket," she said. I didn't make the connection until later this afternoon when I parked taxi 1010 at the top of the taxi stand at Levi's Plaza and went into Il Forniao to get a cookie and coffee and use their restroom, which has pale peach lighting hard to describe. On the way out, I realized what the parking detail vehicle with flashing yellow lights, with its driver examining my license plate, meant. The fellow had already tapped the number into his portable tablet as I unlocked my door and climbed in. "There goes two days' income," I laughed, "and I know you're going to do your thing." "That's right," the man replied waiting for the ticket to pop out of his onboard printer unit, "I'm going to do my thing ... this cab is over into the crosswalk, " he added, pointing to the front wheels of my taxicab. "You don't understand taxicab drivers, do you?" I laughed back, and he gazed at me incredulously. I took this opportunity to fix him in the right eye and raise energy up the left side of my spine. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. Normally, I wouldn't do that with someone looking directly at me, but in this case made an exception. "Want a cookie?" I said. His jaw almost dropped as he tried to get angry, though I had him fixed. I did it again. Jesus did say, "Love your enemies." |
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