A very quick post today, considering the extraordinary heat both outdoors here in NYC and more locally under my collar.
Picture this....my husband and I are standing near the corner of 10th Avenue and 42nd Street in 102 degree heat, he has his hand in the air hailing a cab, I have my arms wrapped around our precious little bundle of puppy fuzz as we are on our way to the veterinarian to get him his last booster shop for a year.
A young woman crosses 42nd Street toward us, looks directly at us taking in what the situation is, stands BETWEEN us and the corner and starts hailing a cab going in the same direction!
She, of course, gets the first cab, looks at us again as she passes us in it and goes back to her texting or her MP3 player or whateverthehell she was doing and travels along on her merry way.
This honks me off on so many levels!
- The rudeness involved in taking another person's cab in this city has been documented ad nauseum in every genre of entertainment from plays to sit coms to movies. GET A CLUE!
- Respecting other pedestrians - let alone one's elders - should be common practice. EVEN amongst the most common!
- Just don't do this. Just DON'T. It only brings about bad karma and makes the people around you who don't believe in karma (or don't know what it is) just think you're a douche.
Meanwhile....until next time!
-SSG
This happened to Brad once on a night when it was sleeting. He was waiting forever for a cab outside the Home Depot, and naturally none were available. He's wet and freezing and miserable, and when a cab finally stopped, this well-dressed socialite girl on her cellphone hopped in front of him, stopped gabbing long enough to tell him that "Some people need to learn how to wait", and tried to take the cab. He snapped and hit her in the face with a bag of screws, hopped in the cab and screamed "DRIIIIIIIVE!!" While this might not have been the most mature or well-mannered response, I post this as a warning: Steal a cab; get screwed in the face.
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