Comments on: CFO

By: jenny

jenny — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:49:40 +0000

delmer: often, i just close my eyes and hope i make it to my destination.

don: people don’t take cabs in california? now *that’s* like a foreign country to me.

sir: in fact, there’s an upper wacker, lower wacker, east wacker, west wacker, north wacker and south wacker. and i’m not even kidding. it’s our plot to confuse all tourists.

shari/kanye: it’s true. there will never be another disco cab!

jenni: it all depends on my mood. there are definitely times when in my head, i just keep saying, “stop talking to me. stop talking to me. stop talking to me.”

claire: this guy is going to be heartbroken that his groundbreaking research study has already been done. it’s best if i don’t tell him…

anecdote: his hair was white. giant glasses. wait… are you the reason he got fired?!

vahid: oh yeah! that was another time where i was almost scared of where a cabbie was taking the conversation. i remember him dropping the f-bomb a lot.

By: vahid

vahid — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:55:38 +0000

I’m reminded of our cab driver on the way back to the Las Vegas airport who asked where we were flying off to, and when we each named different cities we explained it with “It’s an Internet thing” and let him make of that what he would.

By: Anecdote

Anecdote — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:02:27 +0000

Were you waiting for the lights to go off and hear the words – “You’re in the cash cab!” Love that show. It’s prolly the only cab I’d be willing to get into in NYC. Not that I get a chance to take many cabs nowadays seeing as I live in a small town in South East Connecticut now and can’t even remember the last time I was in NYC…Shame really, ‘cos I would love a cab ride…Some people just don’t know how good they’ve got it. (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)
P.S. I worked in New York for a CFO for ten years…nearly killed me! lol Wait a minute, did he have red hair?

By: claire

claire — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:25:24 +0000

“which is when he comments on my red hair.” Before I even got to your reply, I thought, “Jenny’s hair’s not red. ……….. Right? Well, all her photobooth shots are in black & white and red goes black. Hmm.” Then I read, “My hair isn’t red,” and figured I wasn’t any more crazy than usual.

Also, pretty sure they’ve already done that study.

As for cabs, I hate having to take them. Goes against my don’t-get-into-strangers’-cars upbringing.

@Dave2: which is hilarious because you’re always saying on your blog how you don’t write about anything personal or work.

However, I do agree: the questions strangers tend to ask are torture.

By: Jenni

Jenni — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:39:34 +0000

Wow. I’m such an introvert, I wouldn’t have carried on a conversation… I would have just pretended to be on the phone or listening to my iPod.

By: shari

shari — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:04:28 +0000

“Yo Pops, I’m really happy for you and Ima letchoo finish driving, but Disco Cab had one of the best cab drivers of ALL TIME.”

By: You can call me, 'Sir'

You can call me, 'Sir' — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:06:53 +0000

So, is there an Upper Wacker?

I like to try to out-creep certain cab drivers by volleying their crazy with some imaginative crazy of my own, then seeing how they react. See, some cab drivers are much more interesting than others. Mostly the blonde ones, but some of the brown-haired ones are OK, too. The redheaded ones are certifiably psycho, though. I should get married, have a daughter, then make her become a psychologist so I can offer her a hair-color based project that she can submit to the NIH as a pointless grant.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:40:43 +0000

Being a Cali boy I’ve never been in a cab except in foreign countries and once in New Orleans (same thing). Nicely written, and I agree with him and you about all that stuff.

By: delmer

delmer — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:12:32 +0000

I don’t ride in a lot of cabs but when I do I don’t talk too much as most of what I’d say would be things like, “I don’t think you’re going to make it,” and “Nice move” … both of which might be distracting to the driver.

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:07:56 +0000

igno-bob: my real encounters are often far more entertaining than my dreams, that’s for sure. (and have you permanently changed your name, or did “remember me” in comments mess you up again?)

dave: so when people try to engage you in conversation, do you just hand them your URL?

sarah: uh, yeah. that’s when you do a shoulder roll out of the car as soon as he slows down.