Word: rearview
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...look at him sitting in the front seat, wearing a scruffy, dark sweater, glancing in the rearview mirror. As you give directions and he begins to weave through traffic, a conversation soon evolves. You talk politics, discuss the weather, or tell him a bit about your classwork. The exchange is natural and familiar. Pavlov would have had a field day with this...
...addition, Carlos recalls being offered money "for sex" more that once. He clarifies that the money is not a proposition but a request to restrain his sometimes wandering eyes from the rearview mirror. "They tell me, 'Just drive around.' But I say, 'No way.'" Carlos assumes there are other cab drivers who don't care about sex in the backseat, and take the money...
...Carlos recalls driving two female students from a bar late at night. One of the women, he says, was "very upset," and had "had a few drinks." She used indecent language in reference to the unimpressive size of her boyfriend's genitalia. "She's looking at me in the rearview mirror, and I'm thinking, 'What the heck? Who is this girl...
Asking a die-hard sports spectator to predict how we will spectate in the future can cause terrible cognitive dissonance. The sports fan is not oriented toward the future; he is the retrospective creature par excellence. He travels forward with his eyes glued to the rearview mirror. His preferred modes of spectating are historical--the highlight reel; the classic NFL film with its sonorous, Homeric narration; and, most perfectly, the instant replay, which, of course, instantly historicizes the present...
...Arrested after year of FBI in rearview mirror. Guilty or not, shoulda been a tad more careful with floppies...