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March 15th, 2006 Night Cabbie | NIGHT CABBIE
 

Oh hey, it's you!

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"Oh hey, it's you!" The girl who has just gotten in is extremely attractive despite being quite overweight, with midnight-black bangs and perfect, perfect porcelain skin. "I remember you," I say. "You and I were talking about being hung up about being heavy but still going out to get laid anyway." She recalls, "You were playing Beth Orton that night."

A night about four or five months ago, yet for some reason I remember all of this. "I dropped you at Sabala's. You were determined to pick up this guy you were after—you had decided that now was the time." She starts laughing, and I ask, "How did that work out, anyway?" It would seem it worked out rather well. "He proposed just the other day. So it seems my casual lay is going to be my husband."

"Wow, that's amazing. What a great story!" She's delighted to have run into me again, so that she could share her story, and then relay the coincidence to her newly minted fiancé. I ask about wedding plans. I myself got ordained back when Multnomah County legalized same-sex marriages, going down to the courthouse to marry folks as they came out with licenses. She asks for my card, thinking they might want to ask me to do it, and I assure them that it's a trivial matter to get ordained online, that they should have a friend do it. I'm flattered to be asked, but it really should be someone close to them. That's the beauty of the Universal Life Church, after all.

 
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03.28.2006 at 10:00 Reply
Oh hey, it's you!Forgive me if someone has mentioned this before - and this is by no means a complaint - but were you guys aware there was a cab driver in San Francisco who wrote a cab column for the Chronicle from 1996 to 2004. He called his column "Night Cabbie" and the masthead featured his eyes in a rearview mirror, exactly the same motif you use. I read his column from start to finish, but I got embittered toward the end as his columns became more stupidly conservative. You column is like liberal distaff revenge! Don't ever stop!(If I could somehow get your e-mail I would send you my Iowa City taxi writings from 1996-1999.)—taxiku

 

03.30.2006 at 10:00 Reply
Oh hey, it's you!Yeah, I used to read his column, and liked it. He was a bit of dick though, he would never respond to readers, even other cab drivers. I wrote to him, as did other drivers I knew. He retired just before I started this one, and I wrote to him about it, being polite (although there have been other Night Cabbies than him as well), but he didn't respond to that either. Nor to a reader that went so far as to send him money in response to a column about being ripped off; I know this because they did the same for me a few months ago. Sheesh. To be sure I sent a letter of thanks.I'm not even WWeek's first Night Cabbie, that was a guy in about 2000. He also was inspired by the SF guy. Unfortunately, WWeek doesn't allow me even a quarter of the word count that guy had...—nightcabbie

 

 
 

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