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...Liz demonstrates her expertise. "If you stop at this light, when it turns green you can hit the pedal as hard as you can and as soon as you get to the next light, it will turn green. The lights are just timed perfectly...of course, I would never do that...
Time for more small talk. Thinking about the cold, lonely nights she faces, I ask Liz what her favorite radio station is. "88.9, from 8 to 11 p.m.," she answers. "After 11 it goes off and they start playing blues. Once, some woman told me 'I thought this hip-hop rap thing was out of style now. "She was an older woman, in grad school...
Things are slow. Liz impresses me yet again: "The light on Mass. Ave. and Everett goes 'don't walk' eleven times. Then it stops and turns green." Encouraged by the friendly, laid-back atmosphere characteristic of the escort, a passenger in the back jumps in, "Lights are regulated on purpose by businesses or gasoline monopolies. For example, in my town WalMart has a special light in front of the store. It's red when all the other lights are green. They found out that in one out of 100 possible chances, you will remember you need something and will just...
...Liz:"One of the passengers we get pretty frequently at the Law School works at the video place down here in the Galeria. Whenever she calls, she has gummy bears or chocolate that she gives to us. She's like our grandma. Richard calls her Mama something. We all know her, we are always wanting to escort...
...time in the escort is nearing an end. Confident that I've gained Liz's trust. I press her for the story of all stories. Cautiously, she whispers, "Some passenger was on, and he just got really sick and started throwing up out the window. In the process, his cap fell off in the middle of Beacon St. There was some story behind the cap; it was sentimental to him for some reason. The passenger asked the driver to go back for the hat, and they did. After that, the escort driver made him clean up the side...