Posts Tagged ‘ in the driver’s seat ’

Reality Drives

January 25, 2010
Reality Drives So far, the realities of hacking are blowing my food fantasies to bits. After a week of driving, there's still too much vertigo in my stomach to make room for hunger. When I do stop to eat, it's wherever I can find parking and a bathroom...

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Training Day in Pictures

January 21, 2010
Training Day in Pictures After spending an hour on the subway with the creatures of the night, I finally made it to the Team Systems garage in Long Island City, where the evening drivers were ending their adventures as the day hacks began theirs. I could hear the dispatcher shouting out the names of the cabbies from where

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Training Day

January 17, 2010
Training Day If I had to search for 10 1/2 hours that were more hilarious, exhausting and vertigo-inducing than my first shift behind the wheel of New York yellow cab, I don't think I could find them...

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Into the Driver’s Seat: On the Eve of the First Shift

January 16, 2010
Into the Driver’s Seat: On the Eve of the First Shift I'm trekking over to Team Systems Taxi Fleet at 4.30am tomorrow with two goals in mind: 1) To watch the sun rise in New York City from behind the wheel of a yellow cab 2) To prevent my passengers, my cab, and myself from running into any serious calamities...

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