He is holding up a cardboard sign with my last name inked in as if he is an especially cheerful limo driver charged with taking me to see somebody really important.
Buenos Aires: I want to sit in a dark, wood 'n' leather bar reading Borges and sipping Viña Amalia Malbec Reservado, spasmodically dreaming of cheerful chiquitas and brooding, vintage racing drivers.
My driver, Sabah, who is usually cheerful, became dour and languid and complained of a headache and fever.
The next driver, from Ghana, shouted a cheerful greeting in Asante, to which Mr. Wissak replied in his native Bensonhurst dialect, "Aw, you son of a gun".
He had always thought of their main room as cheerful, but walking through the door with the driver, he realized there was something slightly suspicious about it.
On this occasion, I liked the driver's youthful face, round and cheerful, with a promising fundamentalist beard, so I said yes.
He was given this information by his first Special Branch driver, Dennis (the Horse) Chevalier, a big, cheerful, jowly, thick-lipped man — "one of the older fellows," he said.
(She's not that great a driver.) But he tries to keep a cheerful attitude.
The Fairlane's presence seemed to cast a mellow spell over nearby cars jockeying for position; at least three drivers granted Mr. Mamola the right of way with cheerful waves.
So he starts rushing around town, taking as a driver the laid-back self-styled 'boat bum' Buddy Noone (the always cheerful Jeff Daniels), a neighbour on the San Pedro marina.
