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themselves since you started driving six years ago what do you think has changed the most the fucking gps tracking systems and credit card machines they re always an issue they don t work it freezes then the passenger has no cash and in the end they blame everything on the driver yeah but culturally do you think there is less respect for cabdrivers there s disrespect but there s a lot of love too but if you re in new york who do you blame mean ugly rude the slime balls the nobodies you made all the good cabbies leave cause the whole thing sucks what self respecting intelligent person would stay in this job formulated by gusgamashuq abunoori at 04 55 no comments friday january 11 2013 मैं नस्लवादी नहीं हूँ मैं सीधा हूँ rust street maspeth queens hello to the new cycle on the mayan calendar my affair with box trucks ended on the eve of christmas eve taxicabs aren t the jealous type so i came back without a hitch i am mad at myself for not making time to go out and help volunteer at respond and rebuild in the rockaways since the hurricane hit first passenger in eight months asks me how i m doing and i respond with frankness i must find a way to make more money and become more spiritual it s a cliche and in my rare attempt to redefine myself i forget she sighs as if i were lost and tells me not to fall into the human trap of needing something to believe in rich people think god is money you should learn to be content with what you make she concludes her sermon with an 8 tip 80 of mexicans in the apple come from puebla one of them graces my cab from work in billyburg to his unlikely neighborhood of steinway an arab district in astoria he says of colombians que somos muy cultos we re cultured people i say the same of poblanos but neither of us are willing to accept a compliment each critical of his own around the corner i happen upon a gracious resident of crown heights who is black and gay i bolt him home on the bqe and he leaves a 30 tip to all you xenophobes who ll never serve the outer boroughs like i do on the topic of tips it is important for people from unaware backgrounds to adapt to those cultural norms that hardworking people depend on for a livelihood i m not trying to single anyone out but indian americans have a bad rep for this i ve witnessed it for myself innumerable times while working in both the residential moving industry and the taxicab i make it a point to provide them extra mile treatment since kindness is the best antidote to negativity but it often has no affect in many countries it s uncommon and even insulting to tip a service position somewhere with incomparably lower living costs may be able to get by on a pre arranged wage if one exists some people were born here but were raised in unintentional ignorance perhaps you re a recent immigrant and feel a need to conserve your resources not applicable to recipients of affluence allergic to strap hanging you may have been treated poorly by people who automatically assumed you wouldn t tip and so you tipped according to their behavior thus creating a self perpetuating cycle of misunderstanding let s each take a step towards ending this by providing great service and appreciative gratuities that are not contingent on pre conceived notions of one another that said thank you hanna the south african girl from india whose favorite song s music video is shot near where she lives for dignifying my efforts with a 25 tip you d be proud to know that amina cachalia was being interviewed on bbc radio the moment you disappeared into kennedy s terminal 4 on the prelude to a later airport run i had parked the cab in the village and walked into three establishments before being allowed the dignity of 1 this one said no at first and then reluctantly shooed me toward the bathroom while stating is what it is the boss is here boss reprimands humanistic instincts of his employees do not be flabbergasted to find a bottle of for urine lurking in the front seat of a cab why can t there be a system where we show our hack license when i came out to the sidewalk i saw a lady with a suitcase at the curb beginning to raise her hand i sprinted over to her need a cab mine s parked right over there i ll carry this luggage over for you an arab cabbie walked up to my cab in line at jfk and lovingly inquired if i knew of any 24 hour shift possibilities i m pleasantly taken aback every time i m spoken to in arabic there couldn t possibly be a jew driving a cab out in this godforsaken industry except for those that pass for arabs a few leftover schizoids and one mizraphrenic i picked up a newly wed guy on wythe avenue who was picking up a large picture of his spouse s that he d snuck out to be framed at a frame shop as a surprise we agreed to make a round trip out of it with the meter running and i d like to thank him again for the 30 tip and for aligning time and space to yield my next fare a japanese family to a ramen place on smith in boerum via bqe i d like to thank them for a 33 tip no thanks to the following fare though a nolita numbskull homebound for the holidays to lga in a firm flotsam flash with an insulting 7 tip from there i drove empty to greenpoint and found a pleasant young man heading to queens center mall to get his mom and sister gift cards for christmas and something for himself he had that new york brand of mojo the kind that s tough without being insolent and he even volunteered to jump out on woodhaven so i could turn again and break free from a gridlock of lethargic shoppers that allowed me to enter queens boulevard further down in rego park where i instantly found a couple late to a reunion in crown heights i gave them an estimate of 30 to 40 it came out to 28 50 sadly i got a 5 tip i feel like most cabbies wouldn t have accepted the inter borough fare in fear of wasting time and money i feel like my fare knew this and went from acting desperate for a ride to playing stupid with the tip i did get a lga out of it though in bedford stuyvesant it was an awkward trip with siblings from rural south carolina who ve been ever so slowly adjusting to the ny state of mind and were on their way home for the holidays we agreed on not serving religion in order to be of service to the creator unto northern boulevard after dropping them off and two colombianas ran over in a rush to see mary poppins at times square so i took some back streets and flew over the east river for these judias samarias from another socioeconomic planet i gave an gujarati cabbie commuting to his parked cab on varick street from his home in chinatown like me a 50 discount it was the only moment in the entire ride his face turned from a frown to a smile he s been a driver for not long twelve years actually so modest yet so disgruntled not happy living among those people chinese they re not good i responded by silently forcing on his shoes you can t understand someone s thoughts unless you walk in them he has several children and a wife in a small space though a tall lavish norwegian woman hailed me at a hotel in midtown just after experiencing a peak emotional moment in her life she immediately got busy elaborately recounting a history she s had with the jewish son of moroccan and russian parents who had as many loose screws as her while i drove her to saks fifth decades ago she lived in new york and dated him intensely on and off she eventually moved to london married a cold robotic german and raised children while briefly in the apple once she ran into her first love and he begged her to stay but she couldn t years later and divorced she returned to find him today but this time he couldn t and for no better reason than that his passion questing had dried up and he was now a rational middle aged jewish man she laughed and cried and barely let me concentrate on driving all along i thought she had this idea not unlike my theory that if one needs an on the spot shrink one simply steps into a taxi and promptly begins their therapy with the driver until she explained that the reason i was hearing this earful was because my ashkizrahi eyes reminded her of him two elderly jewish ladies amble in on madison and unapologetically change their upper east side destination a couple of times it s fine though because i remember them being mostly pleasant about it besides i have no use for apologies their 60 more than makes up for any inconvenience mind you it is not common for old women on the upper east side to be anything but verbally harsh to a cabbie and tipping beyond 15 is unheard of upon arrival i hop out open their door and help them out the eye contact between us is that of oh look at that we seem to both be jewish and with that exchange an awkward utterance of happy holidays formulated by gusgamashuq abunoori at 12 00 3 comments wednesday january 9 2013 târziu și dracului newtown creek hunters point queens stories and photos from autumn s americas border bouncing bonanza await assortment while those from years past remain incomplete the home base life lived in between these journeys accounts for much longer swaths of time offering material equally worthy of documentation that remains just as unassorted laboring in various sectors of the transportation industry while helping out with family finances and mental health issues requires an amount of energy that leaves little for blogging let alone other artistic and altruistic endeavors i don t have my own children so i can t complain the age of excuses and self pity is coming to an end it s becoming now or never more than ever i lasted the better part of a year at the art handling job driving box trucks it was fun and fulfilling until the distress of chaotic mismanagement took over and it stopped being educational around the holidays the art handling world took a nap but the bills didn t that was my opportunity to play career musical chairs again in the spring i had vowed not to drive a taxi again for as long as i could on the winter solstice i not only returned but with the same intense sense of honor and joy towards it as i had when i first got my hack license in 2006 i remain mindful however of the undignified reasons behind the temporal career swap and vow to limit the amount of shifts i drive to a minimum in fact i plan to leave new york all together for a little while so i can focus on things besides the rat race it won t be easy unplugging from this city though i currently live in chinatown my favorite neighborhood in all of the apple i share an apartment with my sister and two roommates which makes the rent reasonable but i find it difficult to concentrate on creative pursuits houston tx and lake worth fl are both calling my name each for more reasons than one the first breathless blurb from recent taxi shifts in almost a year is in the works along with every other jammed particle awaiting colonic therapy metaphorically and then some formulated by gusgamashuq abunoori at 11 39 no comments saturday september 8 2012 cinco dias en mexico city eje central lazaro cardenas mero centro d f the adventures of the past decade have led me through much of north and most of south america in the past year i decided that before crossing the ocean again i would first link the missing autohemispherical gap mesoamerica so over the past few months i ve bucked up to pay off debts and save up in spite of big apple living costs i found a flight to mexico d f for 180 and one from bogota to new york for 278 i then rounded up 1680 to last me 55 days maximum average 30 per day by land and boat through 8 countries on the 2nd at 6 40 i departed from jfk with my co traveler glo diaz a brief layover in phoenix and by 15 00 we were in modern tenochtitlan dividing everything by 12 5 usd to mxn by divine intervention close to a year ago the great sarah hope introduced me to cintia a good friend she d met during her time as a chilanga cintia was a guest at my apartment for a weekend and went above and beyond returning the hospitality this week sharing her lovely home and exceptional novio with glo and i on our first full day she offered me a translating gig at the indian embassy but the corporate atmosphere scared me off before the meeting even started instead i met up with glo and we walked across downtown twofold from la ribera to the edge of el bosque to the historic core and back standing beside the massive zocalo raised my hairs while bountiful signs of disparity enraged me to near tears we took an elevator up to the top of torre latino just before sunset to watch the densely inhabited basin shift to night make sure you learn the days of the week in spanish before reading on el martes we experienced our first ride on the extensive and extremely inexpensive subterranean phenomenon known as sistema de transporte colectivo if we had more time here i d make an entire day of just hopping on and off at every station on a 3 peso fare and exploring the vast network of vendors and informative displays that exist down there we rode linea 3 to coyoacan to check out la casa azul de frida kalho filled with her fascinating works and personal items my favorites were the intricate little exvotos and a comprehensive diagram of the stages of pregnancy she kept on her wall we then traversed the verdantly cobbled path to san angel our hosts pablo y cintia met us at plaza hidalgo for some coffee shop socialism and we all made the nearly two rush hour trek home via metrobus along the longest continuous urban avenue in the world insurgentes all of miercoles we spent en el museo de antropologia and we still didn t manage to see all the rooms which carefully detail the innumerable prehispanic cultures of mexico and the americas the mayan codices preserved journals and those xantiles with the widest eyes and familiar bodily gestures intrigued me the most on our walk home we passed by the kabbalah centre in polanco and marveled at the boisterous crowd mingling out front as always i was too chicken to go inside el jueves tomamos un camion bus from terminal del norte to see the ruins of ancient teotihuacan and its two piramides placed in mathematical relation and reverence to the two most influential celestial bodies the one we revolve around and the one that revolves around us in the evening we had a delicious pozole and one of the numerous quality local beers we ve enjoyed without the cost of import otherwise we ve mostly been alimenting ourselves at delectable supposed dogmeat taco street stalls and devouring tlacoyos chiles rellenos chilaquiles enchiladas quesadillas huaraches you name it all washed down with sangria soda boing and aguas frescas de guayaba jamaica y tamarindo la michoacana s endless ice cream flavors and out of this world flan for dessert in reality we ve been so busy walking journaling and jumping aboard half moving microbuses that we ve neglected nourishment for large swaths of each day el viernes fuimos a xochimilco an awesome gridwork of shallow canals much like before the uncivili...