From the Driver’s Seat: Bits of Light
This weekend marks six months since I started driving a yellow cab in New York City. I may still be a rookie, but I know one thing: I never would have survived any of my shifts without at least one instance of light.
Sometimes it arrives when I pull up next to another cab driver fighting fatigue and braving the traffic:
Other times it’s Mike Katz, my weekend dispatcher – who speaks Spanish with a Brooklyn accent and always asks me “How’s the blog?” – who inspires me to keep going.
Every once in a while, the NYPD make me giggle, especially when they’re trying to look fierce and aren’t in a position to pull me over:
Often times just seeing New York be itself is enough to remind me why I’m lucky to be doing this job:
Of course I’d go nowhere without vendors like Sam Kandil, a former mechanical engineer from Egypt who sells hand-rolled bagels from a cart on the corner of 53rd and 7th Ave and throws a muffin in the bag when I’m not looking:
And there are few things as soul-soothing as having the perfect song come on the radio when you’re driving back to the garage after 12 hours on the road:
Congrats on 6 brave months full of delightful tales! Here’s to many, many more.
Thank you, Suzi!
Congratulations!! And thanks for all the wonderful stories you have been telling us from the driver’s seat!
Id recommend 1979 by the Pumpkins as a good song for driving or Tonight, Tonight. Congrats on making it so far!
“Tonight, Tonight” or “1979″ would be great songs for driving. Congrats on making it so far!
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