I drive for a New York cab company, which has its advantages and disadvantages.

About the only good thing is getting to check out some of the pretty women that need to be driven from place to place, mostly to meet their lovers. On the downside, the city is so big and most of the people living in it are rather unfriendly. The hours are crappy and there’s no real motivation to do better on the job. But that all changed the other night.

The weather had been weird all day. One minute it was raining, the next it wasn’t. Sometimes there was lightning and thunder, other times just wind. Going past a row of clubs, I spotted a young couple huddled under an awning, waiting for a cab. I pulled up and they made a dash for me. Once inside they told me their destination on the other side of town. It was going to... Leer Más