I love the study of how people and things and situations happen in real life!!
how very very cool!
it is storys like these that help me know we are all in the same ship of being together in this thing called LIFE!
Who is going to complain about the Lion exactly? HMM? the worst nightmare any community(much less major city) would want happen is a trash removal strike. We had the hospital sanitation workers threaten a strike here CAN YOU IMAGINE what that would look like in just a few hours ??? they got every thing the union demanded before it was time to walk. heee haa power in insifnificat places much?
my last time riding in a cab with my 2 sisters, i had a major panic attack. they told me to quit watching. i was hysterical like when you laugh and cry but you're not sure which you're doing
after he let us out my sister told me that every time he passed one of his temples or house of worship, he closed his eyes and bowed his head while speeding
i didn't even know this when i was freaking out
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juan beautiful story. give the guy my love when you see him at church
I accept both corrections. My adventure needs no exaggeration in my memory or the telling.
I noticed the speedometer over 70 numerous times just outside Manhattan (e.g. Lincoln tunnel and heading out to JFK airport) not IN Manhattan. On descents downtown (7th avenue once, and an eastern avenue once) I saw the speedometer over 60. The snow (and his lack of windshield washer fluid - did I mention THAT!?) made it harrowing. I ruined more than just a pair of winter gloves. lol
Manhattan is a different place at 3:30 a.m. - by no means empty, but quieter. He verbally distained folk crossing against lights and cars pulling into his lane slowing him down. I made a mental note to give more space to trucks (they might be on a mission from God). This guy IS an accident waiting to happen.
He did run red lights wherever he thought he could semi-safely.
Yes, to WNEW, my teen years station. Its recent history is all too metaphoric for current American society in general, si'?
I've seen documentaries about all the people who work late at night in cities, but they never highlighted dumpster picker-uppers. I hope they don't accidentally pick up any dumpster divers!
Derail alert! Hmmm, maybe not. It's sorta about Mr. Toad's Wild Ride:
Exsie, I'm with you on the speeding taxi thing. I'd rather take a bus or a train, where I can't really see what's going on, than to be dashing through busy traffic in a big city with some guy driving who speaks no English and probably just arrived in this country a week earlier. It really freaks me out.
So far, Washington, DC, is the worst for taxi drivers. I take the Metro everywhere I can when I go there for this very reason!
The all-time worst ride was in Atlanta, though. The taxi driver looked a few days short of 100. He had several bottles of his pills on the front seat beside him. And we had to go on the freeway. (shudder) When he drifted off onto the shoulder at about 80 mph, I grabbed my boss's arm and didn't let go till we got to the airport!
At first I thought it was a story about going around scavenging things out of dumpsters which, of course, I would have been very interested to read. Still a great story.
Me too Jim....as I've had some pretty interesting stories show up in my life...especially right after my divorce a few years back, where "dumpster diving" turned out to be a pretty Godly blessing...ah the stories I could tell...LOL JJ
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This is a great post!!!
I love the study of how people and things and situations happen in real life!!
how very very cool!
it is storys like these that help me know we are all in the same ship of being together in this thing called LIFE!
Who is going to complain about the Lion exactly? HMM? the worst nightmare any community(much less major city) would want happen is a trash removal strike. We had the hospital sanitation workers threaten a strike here CAN YOU IMAGINE what that would look like in just a few hours ??? they got every thing the union demanded before it was time to walk. heee haa power in insifnificat places much?
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George Aar
"He drove 75 mph in Manhattan in a big truck in the snow and ignored all traffic safety indicators"
Gosh, sounds like somebody else I know (except he didn't drive that slow)... :D-->
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vickles
George, don't tell me it was you
Well, I think I could see your wife doing it....lmao... :D-->
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pawtucket
It wasn't Geo. We were in the back seat singing "Feeling Groovy"
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excathedra
my last time riding in a cab with my 2 sisters, i had a major panic attack. they told me to quit watching. i was hysterical like when you laugh and cry but you're not sure which you're doing
after he let us out my sister told me that every time he passed one of his temples or house of worship, he closed his eyes and bowed his head while speeding
i didn't even know this when i was freaking out
**
juan beautiful story. give the guy my love when you see him at church
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vickles
Paw, you were in the back seat with george???
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vickles
and you were feeling groovy?... :P-->
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WordWolf
At 75 mph in MANHATTAN on the straightaways, he would have to run red
lights or be sideswiping cars on the FDR Drive.
I'll buy he was going fast, but 75 in a truck SHOULD and WOULD get you
arrested. There was a news item about such a truck making an unsafe
turn at speed in a residential area, and turning a kid into a memory, in
JANUARY.
Furthermore, WNEW is 102.7, not 107.2...
It USED to be a successful rock-and-roll station (and a rock legend) until
some fool changed it to talk a few years ago. Now they changed it again
because that didn't work, and I don't know WHAT the playlist is.
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Juan Cruz
Wordwolf,
I accept both corrections. My adventure needs no exaggeration in my memory or the telling.
I noticed the speedometer over 70 numerous times just outside Manhattan (e.g. Lincoln tunnel and heading out to JFK airport) not IN Manhattan. On descents downtown (7th avenue once, and an eastern avenue once) I saw the speedometer over 60. The snow (and his lack of windshield washer fluid - did I mention THAT!?) made it harrowing. I ruined more than just a pair of winter gloves. lol
Manhattan is a different place at 3:30 a.m. - by no means empty, but quieter. He verbally distained folk crossing against lights and cars pulling into his lane slowing him down. I made a mental note to give more space to trucks (they might be on a mission from God). This guy IS an accident waiting to happen.
He did run red lights wherever he thought he could semi-safely.
Yes, to WNEW, my teen years station. Its recent history is all too metaphoric for current American society in general, si'?
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excathedra
glad we got that straightened out
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Linda Z
Juan, interesting slice of life, for sure!
I've seen documentaries about all the people who work late at night in cities, but they never highlighted dumpster picker-uppers. I hope they don't accidentally pick up any dumpster divers!
Derail alert! Hmmm, maybe not. It's sorta about Mr. Toad's Wild Ride:
Exsie, I'm with you on the speeding taxi thing. I'd rather take a bus or a train, where I can't really see what's going on, than to be dashing through busy traffic in a big city with some guy driving who speaks no English and probably just arrived in this country a week earlier. It really freaks me out.
So far, Washington, DC, is the worst for taxi drivers. I take the Metro everywhere I can when I go there for this very reason!
The all-time worst ride was in Atlanta, though. The taxi driver looked a few days short of 100. He had several bottles of his pills on the front seat beside him. And we had to go on the freeway. (shudder) When he drifted off onto the shoulder at about 80 mph, I grabbed my boss's arm and didn't let go till we got to the airport!
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At first I thought it was a story about going around scavenging things out of dumpsters which, of course, I would have been very interested to read. Still a great story.
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Me too Jim....as I've had some pretty interesting stories show up in my life...especially right after my divorce a few years back, where "dumpster diving" turned out to be a pretty Godly blessing...ah the stories I could tell...LOL JJ
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