Word: cab
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...Meet Carlos Hernandez, a Cambridge cab driver for the Yellow Cab Company. He has curly black hair, dark skin and a slightly rotund physique. He is soft-spoken yet intelligent, and eases into casual conversation with the fluidity of a professional. "I give rides to the whole spectrum of society, from the lowest to the highest," he says with a charming Spanish accent. "I pick up professors, I pick up students, I pick up drug dealers, I pick up pimps.... I'm very open-minded when I talk to people...
...Carlos has served a twelve-year stint with the Yellow Cab Co., working nights. He claims no divine source of inspiration in choosing the job. After emigrating from El Salvador 20 years back, he found himself in need of work. Getting his taxi license, known in cab jargon as a "hacking license," was the obvious choice. "No matter how bad the economy is," he says, "you can always get a job as a cab driver." It is steady work, which he enjoys mostly because of the variety of people he meets...
...Sometimes, students' recreational activities border on plain vulgarity. On extremely rare occasions, Carlos is forced to take disciplinary action. "One time I kicked out four Harvard students (from my cab). They were being rude, farting inside the car and laughing. I told them I didn't want any part of that. I stopped the cab and told them...
...York LA commute: Something I'm very used to. Cab...