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...forget the Jewish grandmother in Boudin. The second he opens his mouth he betrays his Brooklyn upbringing. If you catch him in a relaxed social setting you may run into a trail of babble which is not the least bit blemished by transitional ideas: "I got into this cab today, and the cab driver has a December 3rd Newsweek--that's all right but it would have been nicer if it were December 10...I read papers, magazines, deep books, anything I can get my hands on. (What deep books, Mr. Boudin?) Well, I never read a deep book...
...raspy voice shatters the static, like the roar of a Mack truck rolling by a Volkswagen: "Breaker, break to any westbound diesel. Is the chicken coop open up ahead?" The answer crackles back from the cab of an 18-wheeler lumbering across Indiana: "It's open and the hen is inside the little white church...
...money than private travel; even a jet flight is often less expensive in terms of fuel use per passenger than a lengthy personal bout with the highways. A ten minute helicopter ride from New York's Wall Street to Kennedy Airport costs about $12; a 45-minute cab ride costs about $13. More amazingly, cabs in New York on the average use more, or as much fuel per passenger as helicopters...
...cab driver who drops Christian off at the pier to take a boat out of New York tells him there are only two kinds of people in the world: "Guys who'll stand around being nobody for an hour so they can be somebody for a minute and maybe bore ten years' patience out of a big shot's life who don't want to listen. But then you get the other kind. The Acquaintances. Who really want to let you know they're close friends by drinking all your drink and eating your food. So I ask sincerely...
part time cab driver...