Some time ago, I took a cab to the airport. I am typically in no mood to strike a long conversation with the cab driver. I will talk about the typical stuff, for example, gas prices, weather and traffic. However, my cab driver expects me to converse openly. As soon as I get in the car, the interrogation beings,
where you going? why you going?, where do you work?, etc…
To make matters worse, this cabby driver inserted a swear word into each sentence, I was shocked. Once I arrived at the airport and was about to enter the terminal, he wished me a safe trip and joked that I should participate in an inappropriate activity. I walked away in disgust and proclaimed never to use this taxi company again.
Driver: Dag Gavershole Plaza (sp?) huh? (Elaine ignores him) Pendant Publishing, that's books right? (Elaine is annoyed and still ignoring him) Miss?I will not resort to such measures, but I hope all my blog readers (probably the ones who have this blog on their RSS reader) understand mine and Elaine's pain.
Elaine: Pardon me?
Driver: Books, that's what you do?
Elaine: Yeah.
Driver: Yeah, I don't read much myself, (Elaine is annoyed) well you know besides the paper. Yeah a lot of people read to relax, but not me. You know what I do?
Elaine: You know I'm having a lot of trouble, um, hearing you back here. So...
Driver: (Yelling) I said you know what I do (Elaine is very annoyed) when I want to relax? The Jumble. Hey do you make a book of Jumbles?
Elaine: I'm going to have to be honest with you. I'm going deaf.
8 comments:
I think you purposely get yourself into these situations just so you can relate it to Seinfeld.
Hey, I never said your blog is predictable, did I? I don't recall saying so.
I don't think I've had the same problem as yours, but if I found a cab driver to be chatty, I wouldn't mind conversing a little bit. It's like when you're at the barber's, you usually make small talk (although any excessive swearing would probably turn me off too).
I do feel like I live a Seinfeld life ... somehow I end up with 3 other friends on a regalar basis at Starbucks discussing life problems, where one of us ends up telling their crazy theories.
Ali, during your blog analysis, you did say my blog entries always involve a complaint (usually South Asian) with Seinfeld comparison. Although, you being a lawyer guy would expect some legal proof ... my credibility would stand up in court ;-).
If it weren't for odd situations, you wouldn't have good stories to tell. I wouldn't even want to repeat what the taxi driver at Vegas said to us; swearing was the least offensive thing that he did. :)
Seriously, you should use a regular limo driver, like the one that Jeff and I uses. Our guy's never late, always polite and comes in with a clean comfortable Lincoln Town Car. I'm curious why you'd put up with the regular yellow cabs.
If you get bored of Seinfeld, you can always relate life's situations to a Simpsons line.
I probably don't have a regular taxi driver because that situation never occured on Seinfeld, hence no potential excitement could occur in my life.
Sadly, I could probably relate almost everything to Seinfeld or Simpsons, which is probably a reflection of the amount of television I watched as a kid, which I bet most of us have, given the number of times these shows are shown on television.
Didn't know anyone in Seinfeld or Simpsons were taking Arabic Classes :P
-H
LOL ... I would have to Muslimize my Seinfeld/Simpson character, add the prayers, halal meals, and ofcourse learning Arabic ;)
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