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Sex in cabs — it happens a lot, says Salomon."
“With me, I do find it offensive, but my level of resentment seems to depend on the way the passenger goes about it . . . I do get annoyed if they’re pretending I’m not even there,” he says.
That was the case one night when he picked up a couple at The Bowery Hotel. As the woman closed the door, she blurted out, “You don’t mind if we have sex in your cab, do you?”
Before he could answer, “she was on him like Fido on a leg.”
Salomon drove half a block before hitting a red light. Coming to a stop, he noticed a cop car and rolled down the window.
“Is this legal?” he asked the female officer.
“She was right on it,” Salomon recalls. “She picked up her microphone and, with a big smile on her face, went to work.”
“Hey, you back there in the taxi!” her voice boomed. “What are you doing back there?”
The couple remained oblivious.
“Hey, no sex in taxis!” the cop shouted.
Now everyone within earshot was beginning to enjoy the show.
“Hey, you, lady in the taxi — get off that guy right now!” the officer continued.
The girl finally looked up and dismounted in horror.
“That’s better! Now behave yourselves!”
After that, the ride up to 24th Street and Second Avenue was as “sober as a ride to church on a Sunday morning with a minister and his missus,” Salomon recalls.
Excerpted by the NY Post, “
Confessions of a Taxi Driver” (The Friday Project) out Jan. 28.
7 comments:
This guy says his shift is 5PM to 5AM three nights a week. He must feel like a rag three mornings a week cause that's the way I felt coming off a 12 hour shift driving a cab, which I did for about two years in my twenties. The guys who are cabbies for life, well, it's an incredibly hard life. I suppose there are occasional breaks from the constant hustling and the monotony, but they're few and far between. To make any kind of money you basically have to go non-stop for the full twelve hour shift. Thank God that's over is all I can say.
I was told that this incident would be kept private.
There is a brand new wrinkle in cab travel in NYC. Mayor Bloomberg had instituted "green" cabs.
Now these are not environmentally better or anything like that. They are simply painted green. They can now pick up fairs in all of the outer boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. Only the yellow cabs can pick up in Manhattan.
Most of these new green cabs are former car service cars. What you would do is call your local car service and they would pull up and take you to where you wanted to go at a flat rate instead of a meter. Now what is really interesting is that these new cabs are all different kinds of cars not your standard cabs. So it is pretty interesting when a green mini-van or Lincoln town car pulls up to take a fare.
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Because you would get hit by a car Lem.
Or nowadays more likely a bike.
Stick with the massage parlor buddy.
This way you know you will get your happy ending.
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