“So, how’s your night?”

I must say that as an amateur meteorological enthusiast, I find this article deeply and personally offensive. The writer, if you can call him that, negatively portrays individuals interested in the weather as being uninteresting and unworthy of basic human interaction, a right that we must all surely have! There is nothing more natural to human beings than taking a keen interest in the wonder and majesty of the world around us. The weather is a daily miracle; always changing and forever reminding those of us that are the least bit sensitive that ours is a complex and sublime world. It seems that in cabbies opinion, the cool thing to do is put on your headphones and ignore everything and everyone around you, deafening yourself with your "underground" music (whatever that's supposed to be).

This is some of the most biased journalism that I have come across in recent memory. You people are sick, and your publication should be put out of print.

 

Is it possible to write ANYTHING that wont offend someone? I dont think so. I sure hope he was joking

I find the weather topic more of an ice breaker with my fares as they use it to get a convo going and then the topic quickly changes.

 

What a thoroughly environmentalistist and offensive piece of journalism. It plays entirely into Hollywood stereotypes and describes Amateur Meteorologists in terms that would never be used for any other American hobbyist minority. To generalize about an entire population on the basis of a few cab riders is nothing short of ignorant. Would you call all Sports fans "boring" and refer to them as a population whose "whole family structure is based on having the same sports game conversation over and over" on the basis of one uneducated family? There are Amateur Meteorological Americans who are professors, lawyers and politicians. You have insulted all of us.

The Hon. Mim Sy. Buttons

Director, The Amateur Meteorological Archives and Documentation Center

A. Crowley Professor of Astrological Arts, University of Antelope, Oregon

Amateur Meteorologist Representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council and to UNICEF

Member, International Amateur Meteorologistic Parliament

 

talking 'bout the weather and cab driving are what most people talk about unless they decide to ask you if you know anything about uti's, std's, girls, boys, drugs, food, the burnside bridge, restaurants, etc.

my latest thing is asking computer people how to get the best wi-fi reception without having to pay for it.

i've been told about the pringles can antenna and the metal vegetable steamer antenna. i haven't tried either of them yet, but i will.

p.s. i'm fairly honest with my fares when talk turns to weather. i tell them that i want it to rain because when it rains people tend to pour into taxi cabs.

man, i hope the weather people are joking. regardless, i laughed. hard.

 

This is why I rarely try and be funny in the columns: I could never match the reader comments in the hilarity department. And the comedy's even intentional this time! The evil part of me was actually a little disappointed last week when no one from Michael Jackson's fan club wrote an outraged letter last week.

There are a couple good compendiums of dumb questions people ask cabbies over, and over, and over again elsewhere on the internet.

And in the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I've switched over to days for the winter months. The columns will continue to be about my experiences as a night driver, and I'll probably head back to nights (or else hand the column over to someone else) come springtime. I just can't do another winter of no daylight.

So I guess that now I'm a hypocrite in addition to being the scourge of oppressed minorities the world over.