The next New York City taxicab will have airplane-style reading lights, passenger air bags, and a so-called low-annoyance horn, engineered to stifle flagrant honkers.
You twiddle your thumbs reading the "Passengers' Bill of Rights" signed by Michael Bloomberg himself as the driver rants into his Bluetooth and tries to manslaughter a bike messenger.
AA's Facebook statement, which was posted on Wednesday morning, read: "This passenger declined to turn off his cell phone when asked to do so at the appropriate time.
The last person to board had clearly not noticed the sign that read "Each Passenger May Carry 1 Piece of Hand Luggage Only" -- or if he had, he had a very liberal interpretation of hand luggage.
In these true cathedrals of list-making, the officiant pauses for a moment to let me read secret passenger lists, which I devour until I surrender to a paroxysm that rises through the diverse levels of the mystical scale, running through it stage by stage in a list that becomes bliss.
They've been known to read a passenger complaint about a meal and immediately replace it with another offering.
In a subway in New York he fell in love with a passenger reading the same book he was reading: "Sons and Lovers".
Officials say they plan to tidy up their postings, placing the master schedule in an area where it can be read by passengers before they pay their fare.
Nor does it envision any "cross-track" ads; that is, panels placed in the track well that can be read by passengers standing on the opposite platform.
Their self-education -- and, subsequently, that of their children -- is said to have begun when they read their passengers' discarded newspapers and magazines.
