When it's all over and the driver delays a moment before going on, the Brit looks at his watch in irritation," and asks for a refund of his fare.
That day, she had an appointment with Derroy Clarke, a Jamaican driver from Brooklyn who claimed that, in 2008, the company that processes credit-card payments in taxis had improperly withheld ten thousand dollars of his fare income.
By a puzzling, and entirely unconvincing, contrivance of plot, Dave is one day invited upstairs by one of his fares, a beautiful businesswoman named Michelle, to have sex.
He'll come under heavy opposition pressure from the first working day of the New Year, especially over the ambiguous phrasing of his fares freeze pledge and the detail of his first budget.
One of the Sir Malcolm Campbells of the taxicabs was weaving an incomprehensible flight between East 57th Street and lower Fifth Avenue and as he tore in and out of the "L" pillars, one of his fares a lady, cried out, "Driver, please, not so fast".
When Mike Jarmuz, the owner of this tiny brick-walled wine bar and performance space, first moved to New York, he drove a cab, and one of his fares, surprised to see such a young guy at the wheel, remarked that taxi-driving was an "old man's hustle".
By James Thurber The New Yorker, January 8 , 1944P. 13 One of the Sir Malcolm Campbells of the taxicabs was weaving an incomprehensible flight between East 57th Street and lower Fifth Avenue and as he tore in and out of the "L" pillars, one of his fares a lady, cried out, "Driver, please, not so fast".
By Rob Fischer When Mike Jarmuz, the owner of this tiny brick-walled wine bar and performance space, first moved to New York, he drove a cab, and one of his fares, surprised to see such a young guy at the wheel, remarked that taxi-driving was an "old man's hustle".
And it was Uncle Joe, one famous Friday evening, who breezed into our apartment with the news that one of his fares, in exchange for a free ride out to Coney Island, had given him two tickets to what was then the biggest hit musical on Broadway -- Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," starring William Gaxton, Victor Moore and none other than Miss Ethel Merman.
He wasn't even able to cover the cost of his bus fare from Chennai.
Why did this Allen film find more of an audience than most of his recent fare? (I liked it, girlfriend hated it).
