Wednesday, September 28, 2016

I love driving.

I love driving. Since moving to Oregon from Austin, Texas in 2004, I've made it a habit to try to get lost on the weekends with a little thing I call, "free range driving" with my wife. After almost 13 years, it's getting a little harder to get lost.

In April of this year, a friend of mine who owns a taxi company asked me if I wanted to drive a taxi part time. I needed the work and he needed a driver. Since I love driving anyway, I figured it would be a perfect fit. Low and behold, it was.

Before I started driving the taxi, I had visions of getting robbed or even worse, getting my throat slit by a psycho passenger sitting behind me. Thankfully that scenario hasn't even come close to happening. In fact, I have been incredibly fascinated by the assortment of people that I have met and spoken with in the fifteen or so minutes that I spend with them on the way to their destination. When I began posting some of these encounters on Facebook, some of my friends said, "you should write a book." Well, maybe I'll do that someday. For now I thought I might try a blog about it.

So, here it is. I hope you enjoy these short stories about some folks I've encountered along the way either in my taxi or somewhere else in my travels through life.

4 comments:

  1. I have enjoyed your taxi stories you have put on Facebook. Looking forward to hearing more stories.

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    1. Thanks, Doc...I appreciate you taking the time to read them!

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  2. Looking forward to reading more of your enterraining encounters!

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