I'm young, smart and sexy. While I get a little shaky outside of city limits, I know Portland really well. I know the fastest way to get you somewhere, and I know the cheapest way (they aren't always the same thing). I can have an intelligent conversation on almost any topic. I've lived in eight different American cities, and visited many others. My Spanish is passable. I can take you to a sushi bar you'll love. I can also take you to a strip bar you'll love.
I have the coolest business card in town. I do interesting things with my spare time. I've got a good book in the passenger seat and am listening to good music. I can make you laugh, and/or I can give good advice. You will like me, you will like the job I do, and you will tip me well.
I am, in short, the shit.
I have also missed this gentleman's turn.
He's one of the premier development economists in the country, and we've been having a fascinating conversation about the autism of the neo-classical economic model. And I just missed the turn off of Columbia that will save him some money on the way to the airport.
So now we're taking a longer route, and I'm no longer quite the hot shit young pseudo-intellectual. I sheepishly tell him that I'll only charge him what the fare would've been if I hadn't screwed up, but the conversation's gone, and the tip's not great.
—nightcabbie@wweek.com
I still hope that WW will add a RSS feed for this column.
Good luck!
WTF!
This is the first time that this article's been written by an ACTUAL CAB DRIVER in A YEAR! And you want to talk about reality?!!!!!!!
Maybe we should also talk about why you got FIRED???? And what you been up to since your ass got CANNED??? NOW THAT WOULD BE A GOOD ARTICLE!!!!!
Think twice before you start throwing stones girlie! Your in a fragile little glass houuse and you got alot more enemies than friends in this business!!!
the REAL CAB DRIVERS know what's up!!!!!!!
REALITY!!! PLEASE!