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...very good. The quote on the back of the menu blares "'Decent Indian Food' - Beverly Bernstein." After eating there Ms. Bernstein couldn't even afford a colorful adjective. The insane prices bother me, but I'm completely mystified by Londoners' lack of indignation. In New York City, the cab drivers recently won a fare hike, bringing their rates to within 50% of London cabbies'. The scorn heaped on the New York drivers was venomous - and not just because they now charge 25% more to take you in the opposite direction from where you want to go. New Yorkers believe...
...resided between the real world and memories of the night my grandfather died. I hadn’t been able to really leave my room for a couple weeks, struck every time by remembrance. When I did leave my room, I thought of the night I ran after a cab to take me to the hospital. Memories were everywhere...
...calming nighttime air should have set a relaxing tone for the night. Out to a spirited piano bar on Boston’s clubby Landsdowne Street, my friends and I were ready to celebrate the end of finals, our common past and our assorted futures. But when our cab-ride conversation turned to the latter subject, one of my friends became embittered, questioning his forthcoming years in the workforce as an investment banker. “How long will I have to put future gain in front of my happiness?” he fretfully asked, probably more to himself...
...like "Thor," an ex-Army Ranger from Dallas, is haunted by his experience. He suffered two broken shoulders, a torn rotator cuff and loss of vision in one eye while getting shot at, bombed and almost stabbed by an Iraqi who tried to drag him out of his cab. "I beat the guy to death with a hammer," he says, asking to remain anonymous. "Sometimes they threw themselves in front of the truck. I can't count how many people I've run over--20, 30 maybe. It got so bad the truck would bounce up and down...
...catching up in the derogatory Italian-American-stereotype business!) On the plus side, the script has the kind of nicely set-up jokes you'd expect on "Friends"; in the first scene, Joey gives a long expository spiel about his reasons for moving to L.A. to the cab driver on his ride from the airport (acting auditions, getting close to family). So, the cabbie asks, what are you doing here in Dallas? There's a classic Joey moment of slowly-dawning realization, then: "I did have a layover in Dallas!" Clearly, this is the same lovable dimwit we remember from...