Shift #52
SUNDAY, MAY 22 -- W Hotel to Lombard/Polk -- $8.95
MY FIRST FIVE RIDES have been long ones -- one over to Oakland and four to or from SFO. The winter rains have been dragging on much longer than San Franciscans are used to, but today we’ve had nothing but sunshine. It seems that the entire populace is out enjoying this gift from the weather gods and trying to forget, for a while, if possible, that millions of gallons of oil are this very minute gushing from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. The young couple I pick up at the W are in a lazy Sunday afternoon mood. They slump down in the backseat, leaning in toward each other and murmuring so quietly that I would be rude were I to intrude. I don’t even bother to eavesdrop... At the end of the ride they graciously and delightedly accept the gift that they had no idea was coming.
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For 25 years I have loved being a San Francisco cab driver. Long ago I began the practice of giving away one free ride per shift, and during 2010 I am blogging around each shift's free ride. If you’ve arrived here newly, please start at "OVERVIEW" and then, if so inclined, please work through the archives, Jan, Feb, etc…maybe one month per visit. Or if you want to peruse, the entries with *** next to them have been saluted by other readers. (I do welcome YOUR feedback.) Thank you for coming.
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